5 days have passed and no objections were raised, so I'll start moving this forward.
-Rob On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I'm shifting my focus more to > the extended OpenOffice ecosystem rather than day-to-day release-cycle > tasks. One of the things I'd like to push for is reinvigorating the > application development community. > > In the legacy project we supported extensions authors via a dedicated > mailing list, a wiki, its own IRC channel, and of course the > extensions repository website. Today we have very little of that > active. > > I'd like to breath some new life into this part of the ecosystem. Now > that we have a steady heartbeat of releases, both delivered and > planned, and a solid record of end-user downloads, it is easier to > argue the value of developing extensions for OpenOffice. I'd like to > help promote this side of the ecosystem via the following tasks: > > 1) Create a new mailing list: [email protected] (or > [email protected] if we prefer). I'll assert that the > current mailing lists are inadequate for encouraging this community to > thrive. If they interact on ooo-dev then they are bombarded with 99% > irrelevant posts, and if they gather on ooo-users then this will be > disruptive to the end-user subscribers there. Extension authors > really are a distinct sub-community of their own. > > 2) Promote the mailing list via the usual means: website, social > networking, maybe a blog post. > > 3) Try to contact the existing extension authors, to encourage them to > joint the list. I'd try to do this via SourceForge initially, since > they might already have the means to send them all an email. > > 4) Promote AOO extension development in general, by interviews of > extension authors, blog posts, perhaps even a rotating spot on our > website featuring an "extension of the week" (or day). > > 5) Encourage this community to provide feedback to the project and > help maintain the current app dev and SDK documentation, website and > wiki. > > If there are no objections to the above I'll go ahead with step 1 in > 72 hours. I'll need a couple more list moderator volunteers as well. > > And of course, if anyone wants to help with other parts of the above, > or complimentary tasks, please let me know. > > Regards, > > -Rob
