On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Marcus (OOo) <marcus.m...@wtnet.de> wrote: > Am 02/06/2013 09:13 PM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: > >> On 31/01/2013 Andrea Pescetti wrote: >>> >>> It got more coverage than needed, probably. It is just a proposal at >>> this stage, like dozens of other proposals. >> >> >> It is starting to become something a little bit more official now. >> Minutes ago, the "FESCo meeting" (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee) >> approved the feature for Fedora 19 unanimously, 9-0. > > > Great news. > > >> They will likely publish some minutes, but I copy-paste from the chat. >> --- >> Feature is accepted under the condition that the conflicts must be >> worked out. OpenOffice and LibreOffice packagers get to work them out. >> There is no FESCo mandate that LibreOffice must change to accommodate >> OpenOffice at this time. Alternatives is not the way to resolve the >> conflicts but environment-modules may be looked at as a similar means to >> achieve that. >> --- >> >> Explanations: >> >> - Conflicts are over the "soffice" and "unopkg" aliases, and possibly >> others, which would be needed by both OpenOffice and LibreOffice. Here I >> hope that the LibreOffice packagers can agree on some solutions (note: >> it's really about the packages, since the upstream LibreOffice does not >> conflict). Stephan Bergmann explained that there is still some usage of >> the hard-coded "soffice" by external applications and in the SDK. So >> this really needs to be clarified to see whether OpenOffice will break >> if it doesn't own the "soffice" alias. >> >> - For historical reasons, the "ooffice", "oowriter"... aliases are >> assigned to LibreOffice. Although we discussed it on the mailing lists, >> this won't change. So, unless we have the funny idea of squatting >> "lowriter", "localc"..., we are left with "aoowriter", "aoocalc" and so >> on. > > > I've the idea that both parties are changing to an own naming syntax: > > soffice -> aooffice *and* soffice -> loffice and so on with other names. > > Then both have work to do and nobody is in advantage to profit from old > stuff. >
But I would have trademark concerns if a statement like this installed anything but OpenOffice: sudo yum install openoffice.org Regards, -Rob > But maybe this just an idealistic way and a naive point of view ;-). > > My 2 ct. > > Marcus > > > > >> Fedora will branch for Alpha on 2 Apr 2013: we must have something >> decently packaged by that time. At FOSDEM I met the Fedora people >> together with Herbert and Andre, so we already have some knowledge of >> the process. >> >> More details: >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ApacheOpenOffice >> >> Regards, >> Andrea.
