Am 08/18/2012 06:38 AM, schrieb Keith N. McKenna:
Marcus (OOo) wrote:
Am 08/02/2012 02:12 AM, schrieb Rob Weir:
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 7:37 PM, drew<d...@baseanswers.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 18:28 -0400, Rob Weir wrote:
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:24 PM, drew
jensen<drewjensen.in...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 09:09 -0700, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
Hi Kay;
I did some basic update to the FreeBSD porting site sometime ago:
http://www.openoffice.org/porting/freebsd/
The site doesn't seem linked from the top-level porting site though.
I would prefer to spend my time on the code rather than on the
release
announcement, however feel free to mention explicitly the FreeBSD
port.
Just to make it clear: we still have some cleanup to do but the
port is
fully operational and FreeBSD users are fully aware that it's
available
on FreeBSD releases.
Pedro.
Hi Pedro,
Then for BSD it should be enough to just point to the page you
updated,
yes?
IMHO, we should consolidate all the porting links onto that one page.
That way it gives one clear place to link to in the announcement, but
also a single place we can link to from other places in the future.
For example, we should probably eventually have a link to the porting
page from the download page.
-Rob
hmmm - well, I'm just getting around to looking at things for this
evening.
Looking at the page(s) now... *chuckling*..
This might not be the right place for what I thought was the task - a
list of existing known ports which are not part of the official AOO
release regiment.
The porting page and it's associated pages seem more about the act of
creating a port, with
http://www.openoffice.org/porting/porting_overview.html
and
http://www.openoffice.org/porting/porting_implement.html
which starts off by pointing to this page:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Porting_Efforts
and that offers links to places such as
http://www.openoffice.org/udk/cpp/man/cpp_bridges.html
So do we really want a page for listing existing non-official ports
that
are known, a simple information service for our users without and
explicitly stating such, endorsing the work - or do we want a resource
for those wanting to perform a port to a new platform - for the
announcement(s) that is.
Yes. ;-)
Maybe the existing porting page remains as a developer-focused page?
It needs to be updated, of course, but maybe not as urgent.
Then we also need a user-facing page about existing ports. Maybe that
could be a new page in the /download directory?
There is already a page which points to 3rd party software / packages:
http://www.openoffice.org/download/non_ASF.html
Kay has created this to compensate the old distribution webpage which
was totally outdated.
So, what about to extend this new page with a "Ports" section from
FreeBSD, Solaris, OS/2 and others?
For the announcement the user-facing one would be the most
appropriate, yes?
I think so.
Marcus
Morning All;
Just checking in on this thread to see if there has been any consensus
on how we should do this or if we should. As we are fast approaching
release of 3.4.1 I would like to get this into the Release Notes.
As a stated bore I believe that it is important to get the information
out that these operating systems are not forgotten and that Apache
OpenOffice is available.
As I haven't seen any different let's add these OSs with a statement to
the "non_ASF.html" webpage.
Marcus
