On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Andrea Pescetti <[email protected]> wrote: > Right on the deadline to propose new features for Fedora 19 (it wasn't > planned) I submitted Apache OpenOffice as a proposed new feature: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ApacheOpenOffice > > You can see this as a first step in getting back into the major Linux > distributions. Timing aside, Fedora is a very good choice for a number of > reasons. >
This is a great step, Andrea. Apache OpenOffice has many Linux users. We see this in the download numbers. But today the install experience is, like many things in Linux, more complicated than the average immigrant from Windows-land is accustomed to. So making this real simple will be key. Thanks again for your efforts! -Rob > Let's wait and see; Fedora 19 is nicknamed "Schroedinger's cat" after all. > The Fedora 19 release schedule, as an exception to the common Fedora > conventions, will not be time-based but feature-based: features accepted by > the Fedora Board will be considered before drafting the schedule. Anyway, > optimally it would allow to package OpenOffice 4.0 (and there would be work > to do on the OpenOffice and the Fedora side to get OpenOffice properly > packaged). > > Regards, > Andrea.
