Re: [libreoffice-website] LibreOffice-Extensions-Template-Website

On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 20:32 +0200, Andreas Mantke wrote:
> Hi Marc, *,
>
> Am Montag, 20. Juni 2011, 20:10:58 schrieb Marc Paré:
> > Hi Rainer,
> >
> > Le 2011-06-20 07:22, Rainer Bielefeld a écrit :
> > > Rainer Bielefeld schrieb:
> > >
> > > May be I should have mentioned:
> > > <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Extensions_Repository>
> > >
> > > Kind regards
> > >
> > > Rainer
> >
> > Regarding one of those items on the wiki page: "Extension transfer from
> > OOo repository ", we should make sure that if we do this that we try to
> > find the author of the extensions to give proper attribution. When I
> > looked at the templates and hoped to transfer some from the OOo site,
> > most of these did not have the author's contact either in the form of an
> > email address or website. It was impossible to track anyone down for any
> > kind of correspondence about their contributions.
>
> we had to look on the OOoExtension-site for mail-addresses or use an mechanism of 
> that site to contact the author. We need in my opinion about ten people (or more) who 
> do the work to sent an email to the author and process his answer.
>
> > We should make sure that, now that we making a clean start, we should
> > include in our documentation of any of the submissions of
> > extensions/templates that the author's email is part of the contributing
> > form.

It always was, the problem is that we do not have access at the service
level only the public view of the site and the address is hidden - for
most of the extensions this is not a problem as the address is in the
license.

> +1
> It's a necessary date that the author of a "project" had to provide in the new 
> environment. The admin could always look for that mail address ;-)

As I said at the old site also - you must register with an email address
to upload, or even comment for that matter IIRC, to either extensions or
templates.

The problem is most acute when all you have is the template file. 

Now that I think about it someone could ask, nicely, if the current
admin at the oo.o site would be willing to do a mass mailing to the
submitters - they could do that for sure, how hard it would be I can't
say for sure, but it shouldn't be all that much.

In fact maybe the people to ask are at Apache now and the database is on
OSU OSL servers - so I think this is a good avenue to explore.


//drew


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