Hi Igor,
On 15.07.2011 02:38, Igor Belogorodsky wrote:
There are some question I'd like to ask
1. It's been announced that OpenOffice project was donated to Apache
Software Foundation as incubator project.
what does it exactly mean? will there be a new website and they said
that they'll be moving the source code somewhere on the Apache side.
does this mean there will be a new way of accessing the openoffice.org?
Two questions, two answers:
Yes.
Yes.
2. I'm a seasonal programmer and I'd like to contribute. The
documentation for getting the source and start programming is too much
confusing.
There are multiple applications with little documentation or too much
written and nothing to the point.
First of all, I have Windows system and don't have any other choice.
Second, the documentation is written in genetic format, of variety of
platforms at the same time and is very confusing.
Are you referring to
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide
I don't think that this documentation is too much or not to the point.
But I would be interested to see where it is can be improved.
What I would like to see is something straight to the point: a. this is
Windows, this is how you do it. b. this is Linix, this is how you do it
etc.
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide
IMHO is exactly this.
3. I've installed the free software necessary to access the code and
compile, debug etc. I is very difficult to configure. A lot of
different pices working together.
I downloaded MinGW, Mercurial, some other things. I don't know what to
do with it. I spend hours just to figure something out. I don't think
it's efficient enough.
You don't need mingw, you should use Visual Studio. There is a free
version (free as in free beer). The mingw build indeed is very slow
and complicated.
4. anyway, what's happening to the project (question 1 again)
I'd like to see better wiki and clearer documentation and better
organized. Somebody has to do it.
If you want to get better documentation, you are welcome to help.
Please send suggestions for improvement. IMHO using the mailing list
ooo-...@incubator.apache.org for this would be better, but we can do it
here also if you prefer that.
Best regards,
Mathias
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