From ooo-dev-return-24638-apmail-incubator-ooo-dev-archive=incubator.apache.org@incubator.apache.org Sat Aug 18 04:38:58 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-incubator-ooo-dev-archive@minotaur.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-ooo-dev-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D1B42D779 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2012 04:38:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 74834 invoked by uid 500); 18 Aug 2012 04:38:57 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-ooo-dev-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 74383 invoked by uid 500); 18 Aug 2012 04:38:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ooo-dev-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 74351 invoked by uid 99); 18 Aug 2012 04:38:55 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sat, 18 Aug 2012 04:38:55 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of gcaiod-ooo-dev@m.gmane.org designates 80.91.229.3 as permitted sender) Received: from [80.91.229.3] (HELO plane.gmane.org) (80.91.229.3) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sat, 18 Aug 2012 04:38:49 +0000 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T2anq-00036t-Un for ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org; Sat, 18 Aug 2012 06:38:26 +0200 Received: from c-71-234-78-71.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([71.234.78.71]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2012 06:38:26 +0200 Received: from keith.mckenna by c-71-234-78-71.hsd1.ma.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2012 06:38:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org From: "Keith N. McKenna" Subject: Re: What to say in AOO 3.4.1 release announcement about the ports? (BSD, Solaris, OS/2)? Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 00:38:13 -0400 Lines: 112 Message-ID: References: <1343768684.4294.4.camel@sybil-gnome> <1343837344.86302.YahooMailNeo@web113511.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1343838251.9575.6.camel@sybil-gnome> <1343864275.5716.12.camel@sybil-gnome> <501AF438.70707@wtnet.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-234-78-71.hsd1.ma.comcast.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 In-Reply-To: <501AF438.70707@wtnet.de> X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org Marcus (OOo) wrote: > Am 08/02/2012 02:12 AM, schrieb Rob Weir: >> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 7:37 PM, drew wrote: >>> On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 18:28 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: >>>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:24 PM, drew >>>> jensen 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. Regards Keith