RE: [libreoffice-users] compatibility / Symphony

The donated Symphony code has been received by the Apache OpenOffice project.  It can be seen on 
the SVN repository.

There is a team of developers, mainly in China, that are working to integrate the improvements in 
that code, especially around bug fixes and common features, into the AOO code base.  Those 
developers provide an extensive and growing QA capability for AOO current releases as well.

Now that Apache OpenOffice (incubating) 3.4.1 is out the door, the exploration of what to migrate 
into a 3.5 and what to do even more dramatically in a future 4.0 is under discussion.

There had been discussion of whether or not to rebase AOO on Symphony or to gradually meld Symphony 
into AOO.  The gradual path is being taken.

There are wiki pages on 3.5 feature selection as well as ideas for 4.0.  Anyone can look and, with 
registration, add to those deliberations.

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: anne-ology [mailto:laginnis@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 09:45
To: Mirosław Zalewski
Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] compatibility / Symphony

       Thanks for this information.



On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Mirosław Zalewski
<miniopl@poczta.onet.pl>wrote:

On 28/08/2012 at 17:58, "anne-ology" <laginnis@gmail.com> wrote:
> >        Thanks for informing the list;
> >            I'm interested in hearing further on Symphony?, as to where to
> > find it, what all it contains, ...
>
> It's official name is IBM Lotus Symphony. Basically it is OOo derivative
> with
> altered user interface.
>
> There has been news flying around some time ago that IBM decided to
> discontinue
> Lotus Symphony in favor of Apache OpenOffice. It is said that IBM donates
> whole
> Symphony code to Apache repository and pay some developers to work on it.
> As
> far as I know, they still haven't done anything.
> --
> Best regards
> Mirosław Zalewski

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