On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Kay Schenk <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > > . > . > . > > > > >> > This reminds me...do we want to add "rollapp" to the porting page? > >> > > >> > https://www.rollapp.com/OpenOffice > >> > > >> > >> Maybe "on request"? I think we'll drive ourselves crazy if we try to > >> track down every book on OpenOffice, ever OpenOffice consultant or > >> even every software extensions or derivative of OpenOffice. I tried > >> to do this once, and look what it did to me: > >> > >> http://www.robweir.com/blog/2010/11/the-legacy-of-openoffice-org.html > >> > > > > It seems to have made you a graphic historian! :) Not so bad actually. > > > > > >> > >> But if we set up an "on request" policy, then we just need to write up > >> a page with some instructions on how companies can submit such > >> listings. > > > > > > OK. Take a look at: > > > > http://www.openoffice.org/porting/ > > > > What would you say about the "Ports and distributions available now" > column? > > Should either of these have been "by request"? > > > > IMHO, these are all good. We're bootstrapping. But we might be able > to reduce the future maintenance if we add a note to that page, before > the listings, saying: > > "The following list of 3rd party ports and distributions is made > available as a service to the community. The Apache OpenOffice > project does not officially endorse or maintain these packages. If > you have a port or distribution that you want to be listed here please > send the details to our mailing list at: [email protected]" > This looks good to me...maybe start a [PROPOSAL] Lazy Consensus for it? > > This also has the benefit of publicly affirming that we're open to > adding other listings. Of course, we always have been open to that. > But it is good to state so explicitly, like we do with books and > consultants. > > -Rob > > > > > This will be easier to maintain than us trying to pull such > >> information in. > >> > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat." -- Robert Heinlein
