From: Marcus (OOo)<marcus.m...@wtnet.de>
To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org
Cc: rbirc...@apache.org
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: What to say in AOO 3.4.1 release announcement about the ports?
(BSD, Solaris, OS/2)?
Am 08/18/2012 11:55 PM, schrieb Kay Schenk:
On 08/18/2012 09:53 AM, Marcus (OOo) wrote:
Am 08/18/2012 06:34 PM, schrieb Marcus (OOo):
Am 08/18/2012 04:38 PM, schrieb Marcus (OOo):
Am 08/18/2012 04:19 PM, schrieb Rob Weir:
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Marcus
(OOo)<marcus.m...@wtnet.de>
wrote:
Am 08/18/2012 02:48 PM, schrieb Rob Weir:
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Marcus
(OOo)<marcus.m...@wtnet.de>
wrote:
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.
The announcement current links to:
http://www.openoffice.org/porting/
Is that the wrong place? That URL is the top
listing if someone
searches Google for "openoffice ports.
Maybe not wrong but IMHO totally oudated since months
and years and
needs
also a clean-up. ;-)
IMHO, It is almost always better to clean up (or replace)
an existing
page at a well-known URL than to create an entirely new
page at a new
URL. Why? Because the existing page is already linked to,
both
internally and externally. So if we think the new content
is relevant
to the purpose of the old webpage, e.g., information on
ports, then we
should keep the old URL for it.
Sure.
Maybe we can make a deal, so that everybody has a little task:
- I'll clean-up the porting homepage (at least the starting
page)
- Drew is adding text for the ports to the other webpage
- I'll add this text also to the porting homepage
- and you just need to keep the link in the announcement ;-)
I've updated the starting webpage at
"http://www.openoffice.org/porting/index.html":
Ahm, it's still in the stageing area:
http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/porting/index.html
Marcus
@Maho,Pedro,Yuri,Nicolas:
Like stated with the other ports I would like to list your name and
mail
address (if available, the Apache addresses):
- OpenSolaris by Adfinis SyGroup AG (Nicolas Christener)
- Solaris (Sparc and x86) by Adfinis SyGroup AG (Nicolas
Christener)
- FreeBSD by Pedro Giffuni / Maho Nakata
- OS/2 by Yuri Dario
Is this OK for you?
Thanks
Marcus
Marcus, on this last part...should Raphael Bircher be added for the
Solaris ports as well? But, we need to hear from both of them.
Nice job on this update by the way.
Hm, I don't know how much he is involved with the port.
@Raphael:
What do you think?
Marcus
