On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 02:29 +0100, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 31/01/2011 drew wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 07:56 +0100, Stefan Weigel wrote: > > > For me, there is absolutely nothing against presenting support for > > > LibreOffice at sites that use OpenOffice.org branding. > > I'd say I agree with Stefan's opinion here; but in general my point > would be that the rebranding will mean a significantly reduced > visibility in search engines (since all links will point to the old > site), with the effect of hiding the work of volunteers over years; so > while a rebranding could make sense in theory, I see some practical > problems with it (problems that did not apply for instance to > OOoAuthors: there the rebranding is welcome and does not damage users). > > > I can tell you with absolute certainty that some of the people > > responsible for the decision to support Libo on OO.o project specific > > sties are doing so out of the same feeling of inclusiveness they applied > > when supporting Go-OO and NeoOffice. Further that during the discussion > > to do so there was at no time an agreement in any way that Libo = OO.o > > Yes Drew, and this is the cooperation spirit I see on the Italian forum > now; everyone gives support to everyone for the common parts, and > specificities are covered correctly and peacefully. > > > but there was and is the acceptance that the time will come when the two > > products are not close enough to be supported on a single site. > > This seems a rather forward-looking statement. When the time comes that > the shared codebase is really tiny I'll agree on this, but I don't see > it happening reasonably early (say, in 2011). Splitting a community that > is not split (i.e., making two sites out of one) would likely need to be > justified by a real difference in code. > > Regards,
Hola Andrea Well, I was not speaking of re-branding anything my desire was for this project to embrace the idea that it is something new and separate. I will acknowledge that this seems not to be the view of the majority within the current contributors and speak of it no more. Best wishes, Drew -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to website+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/website/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
