Re: [libreoffice-design] Extensions List suggestion

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Sophie Gautier <gautier.sophie@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Michael,
> On 06/01/2011 23:14, Michael Wheatland wrote:
> [...]
>
>
>  The idea is to have a suggest an extension, then approval system prior to
> > publishing on the extensions directory. The same theory will be used for a
> > templates library as they also represent high value 'addons' to out
> > software.
> > We have been avoiding a public publishing system like a wiki for these, as
> > extensions and templates that we suggest also reflect on the quality of
> > our
> > product.
>
> Can you tell me where does this come from? Where this decision has been
> discussed and taken and by whom? The fact that we don't use the OOo site is
> to satisfy a request that has nothing to do with quality.
>
> We are an open source project, why should we prevent somebody to contribute
> for whatever reason? what are the criteria for the quality you're talking
> about, where are they written, who is the person giving the approval? That
> would be funny that people could contribute to OOo but not to LibO...

It is a work in progress. We will be consulting with all of the stakeholders
once things settle down and LibO3.3 has been released. Rest assured we will
be able to change things once a community consensus has been reached.

We did not want to move focus away from the important areas of community
development at the moment. Hence the comment previously.

Stay tuned

Thanks,
Michael Wheatland

>

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