Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Recruitment for Base (Was Re: [steering-discuss] Base - a new mailing list?)

Hi :)
What is JVM?  
Regards from
Tom :)



--- On Wed, 14/9/11, Robert Ryley <rryley1976@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Robert Ryley <rryley1976@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Recruitment for Base (Was Re: [steering-discuss] Base - a 
new mailing list?)
To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Wednesday, 14 September, 2011, 18:14

Hello all,

I have a few thoughts on some of the problems mentioned:

1. Lack of compatibility re: MS Access
2. Bugs, lack of docs and developer resources for base
3. Desire to recruit developers

In order to market the package productively, some input from the base
developers would be helpful.  I personally want to know

1.  How integrated into writer, calc, etc. is base?

2.  What exactly do we want base to do?  Personally, if it isn't at
least somewhat compatible with MS access, I don't know what the point
is.

3. To recruit developers, or at least make better use of current
volunteers, is there a willingness to explore/experiment with JVM
compatible languages that might speed up development time (after the
learning curve, of course)?  The info gained from using base revisions
might help other areas of the project without being too disruptive to
other sections of the code.  Also, working on something new and
"bleeding edge" would create some developer interest in communities
that wouldn't normally consider working on a "boring" office project.

4.  What features need  to be kept, what features need to be modified,
and which one should we consider dropping for the moment?

5. There are a lot of smaller DB backends that could be used.  MySQL
and Postgress aren't the only ones.  SQLite is worthy of consideration
if it makes technical sense to scrap what is currently used.

I'm downloading the api docs, but there is a lot of info to go
through.  Some input from devs would help greatly.

Robert

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