On 01/06/2011 17:33, robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote: > Jukka Zitting wrote on 06/01/2011 12:13:09 PM: > >> >>> Community >>> >>> OpenOffice.org. seeks to further encourage developer and user > communities >>> during incubation, beyond the existing developers currently working on > the >>> project. >> >> Any thoughts on how (or if) the LibreOffice community would fit into >> this picture? >> > > There are many projects, open source and proprietary that are derived from > Sun/Oracle's original OpenOffice project. > > I made a diagram of this on a blog post a while ago: > > http://www.robweir.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/oo-forks.png > http://www.robweir.com/blog/2010/11/the-legacy-of-openoffice-org.html This is really helpful Rob. Thanks. > So I think we want to consider all of this. This code base, although not > your typical piece of componentry, does appear to have been treated as > something that could be customized, repackaged and redistributed. I don't > have the exactly numbers, but there are significant users of the following > OpenOffice derivatives: > > - LibreOffice > - IBM Lotus Symphony > - EuroOffice > - BrOffice (which some would say is a derivative of LibreOffice) > - RedOffice > > In all cases there are several overlapping communities: > > - a community of developers > - a community of users > - a community of supporters, trainers, consultants, etc. > > We'll need to work out how these related, and especially which of these > community functions are a good fit for an eventual Apache TLP, and which > things fit better outside of Apache. But my recommendation is that we > encourage the core development of the editors to occur in Apache, while > making it easy, via a modular extension mechanism, a modular install, etc. > for others to customize and redistribute as permitted by the Apache 2.0 > license. I like the sound of this and I note that Bob Sutor says similar in his blog [1] I think it would be really good to have this goal in the proposal itself, it is something concrete to point to from a community development point of view. Ross [1] http://www.sutor.com/c/2011/06/some-remarks-on-openoffice-going-to-apache/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-help@incubator.apache.org