I don't know what this will mean for us in the OOo and LibO docs groups, but I am concerned about the potential for further fragmentation of a small group of docs people into working on several
projects.
If The Apache Software Foundation does what they normally do with
projects, there will not be a binary release of Apache OpenOffice.org.
There will only be a source code release.
The onus will be on third parties to deliver binaries.
Given the history of third party distribution of OOo binaries, I suspect
that tracking the third parties that deliver binaries that are either
based upon, or exclusively Apache OpenOffice.org code to non-trivial.
I don't see typical OOo end-users grabbing the Apache OpenOffice.org
source code, and compiling it for their system.
We really need to work on better ways to reuse material without time consuming rebranding
+1
OTOH, I'm not sure how much material will be reusable.
In updating _OOo in a Multi-Lingual Environment_, my original theory was
to include OOo4Kids, and OOoLight. Due to the differences between those
programs, and OOo, I had to either write: "This can not be done using
OOo4Kids" or else write a completely different set of instructions.
Instructions that, as often as not, did not work with either OOo, or LibO.
by automating everything we can and choosing not to do some
non-essential things that can't be automated.
The practical issue is:
* Which existing OOo derivatives/variants should the Documentation
Project track;
* What criteria should be used, to determine which new
derivatives/variants should be tracked;
Existing OOo derivatives/variants are:
# FLOSS:
* GO-Oo;
* BrOffice;
* LibreOffice;
* OOo4Kids;
* OOoLight;
* OpenOffice.org;
* OxygenOffice;
# Proprietary:
* 602Office;
* Co-Create Office;
* EuroOffice;
* KaiOffice;
* MagyarOffice;
* MyOffice 2007;
* NeoOffice;
* NextOffice;
* OfficeOne;
* OpenOffice Pro;
* OpenOffice UX PL;
* OpenOffice PL;
* RedOffice;
* StarOffice/Oracle OpenOffice;
* Symphony;
* ThizOffice;
* UPOffice;
* WPOffice;
I put that list together, based on various pages on the web. Not all of
those programs are still distributed.
jonathon
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