2012/9/19 Rob Weir <[email protected]> > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 3:35 AM, Shenfeng Liu <[email protected]> wrote: > > What a great news! > > Congratulations! > > > > I'm especially proud of the recognition the community received for the > OpenOffice Templates website. This almost did not happen. It > required a lot of effort, especially by SourceForge and Apache Infra, > to make this a reality. > > Remember back when OpenOffice first came to Apache. We had the OOo > code, and a bunch of legacy services hosted on Oracle (and other 3rd > party) servers: website, wiki, forums, templates, extensions, > bugzilla, etc. We could have just abandoned the services and focused > 100% on the code. We could have just kissed the legacy web services > good bye and let them die. That would have been an easier choice. > This option was mentioned at the time. It would have been less > effort. It would have allowed us to make more progress on the code, > and faster. Certainly that was the choice that could have been made, > and which was made by another related project. IMHO, it is akin to an > army leaving its wounded behind in order to make a faster advance. > > Personally, I'm glad we did not abandon these services. Instead we > invested in them. Yes, it took time. Yes, it took energy. Yes, it > diverted resources that could have been used to work on product > features. If you recall there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth > in some circles, saying that we had delayed our OpenOffice release so > long that it would no longer be relevant, that we would never catch > up, that we would inevitably fail. > > Well, guess what happened? We released 3.4.0 and had phenomenal > download numbers. And then we released 3.4.1 and the download numbers > are even better. And now we receive awards both for the product, > but also for one of the legacy web services. Hopefully this puts the > doubts to rest. The answer to an "either/or" question is sometimes > "both". > > -Rob >
+1. As other said, great summary! The news are now on the EN, ES and IT forums (and on my blog...) Regards Ricardo
