On 12-10-01, at 08:49 , Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > 5 days have passed and no objections were raised, so I'll start moving > this forward.
Great, thanks. Louis > > -Rob > > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: >> As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I'm shifting my focus more to >> the extended OpenOffice ecosystem rather than day-to-day release-cycle >> tasks. One of the things I'd like to push for is reinvigorating the >> application development community. >> >> In the legacy project we supported extensions authors via a dedicated >> mailing list, a wiki, its own IRC channel, and of course the >> extensions repository website. Today we have very little of that >> active. >> >> I'd like to breath some new life into this part of the ecosystem. Now >> that we have a steady heartbeat of releases, both delivered and >> planned, and a solid record of end-user downloads, it is easier to >> argue the value of developing extensions for OpenOffice. I'd like to >> help promote this side of the ecosystem via the following tasks: >> >> 1) Create a new mailing list: ooo-extensi...@incubator.apache.org (or >> app...@incubator.apache.org if we prefer). I'll assert that the >> current mailing lists are inadequate for encouraging this community to >> thrive. If they interact on ooo-dev then they are bombarded with 99% >> irrelevant posts, and if they gather on ooo-users then this will be >> disruptive to the end-user subscribers there. Extension authors >> really are a distinct sub-community of their own. >> >> 2) Promote the mailing list via the usual means: website, social >> networking, maybe a blog post. >> >> 3) Try to contact the existing extension authors, to encourage them to >> joint the list. I'd try to do this via SourceForge initially, since >> they might already have the means to send them all an email. >> >> 4) Promote AOO extension development in general, by interviews of >> extension authors, blog posts, perhaps even a rotating spot on our >> website featuring an "extension of the week" (or day). >> >> 5) Encourage this community to provide feedback to the project and >> help maintain the current app dev and SDK documentation, website and >> wiki. >> >> If there are no objections to the above I'll go ahead with step 1 in >> 72 hours. I'll need a couple more list moderator volunteers as well. >> >> And of course, if anyone wants to help with other parts of the above, >> or complimentary tasks, please let me know. >> >> Regards, >> >> -Rob