Re: RE : [libreoffice-website] Re: On forums for LibreOffice

On 31/01/2011 drew wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 07:56 +0100, Stefan Weigel wrote:
> > For me, there is absolutely nothing against presenting support for
> > LibreOffice at sites that use OpenOffice.org branding.

I'd say I agree with Stefan's opinion here; but in general my point
would be that the rebranding will mean a significantly reduced
visibility in search engines (since all links will point to the old
site), with the effect of hiding the work of volunteers over years; so
while a rebranding could make sense in theory, I see some practical
problems with it (problems that did not apply for instance to
OOoAuthors: there the rebranding is welcome and does not damage users).

> I can tell you with absolute certainty that some of the people
> responsible for the decision to support Libo on OO.o project specific
> sties are doing so out of the same feeling of inclusiveness they applied
> when supporting Go-OO and NeoOffice. Further that during the discussion
> to do so there was at no time an agreement in any way that Libo = OO.o

Yes Drew, and this is the cooperation spirit I see on the Italian forum
now; everyone gives support to everyone for the common parts, and
specificities are covered correctly and peacefully.

> but there was and is the acceptance that the time will come when the two
> products are not close enough to be supported on a single site.

This seems a rather forward-looking statement. When the time comes that
the shared codebase is really tiny I'll agree on this, but I don't see
it happening reasonably early (say, in 2011). Splitting a community that
is not split (i.e., making two sites out of one) would likely need to be
justified by a real difference in code.

Regards,
  Andrea.


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