On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> > wrote: > > Hi - > > > > To make it official and so that we are all clear. > > > > The following rules apply to links to third party products and related > new announcements only. > > > > (1) Have a project wide 3rd party page in English. > +1 on this...I think we're kind of in development with this as a replacement for the old "sellers.html" page -- the CD page Rob was going to blog about. It would certainly include many other things. > Which we do. > @Rob, are you referring to porting? http://www.openoffice.org/porting/ > > > > (2) Each language community may choose to have a separate 3rd party > page. (For example a Germanophone third party page.) > > > > And such page should contain everything relevant from the English > page. Relevant means available in the relevant language. We don't > want to play favorites, where one NL links to PrOOoBox but not > winPenPack, while another does the opposite. > +1 A single listing but in many languages? > > > (3) Each language may choose to maintain their own news feed to make > language community specific announcements. > > > +1 > > Yes. > > > (4) A news item may link to any 3rd party page in openoffice.org. > > > > Yes. > +1 > > > (5) 3rd party pages may link to 3rd parties. Who the 3rd party is should > be clear on 3rd party page. It should be clear that the 3rd party is not > the ASF and is not the Apache OpenOffice Project. > > > +1 > > Not necessarily. It is case-by-case depending on the 3rd party and > what they are offering. The usual criteria apply -- Does it use AOO? > Are the respecting trademarks? Is it good for the ecosystem? And so > on. > > For example, it would not make sense for us to link to a page that has > nothing but advertisements and links back to our download page. But > given our PageRank, this would be a temptation for some.In the PrOOBox > case specifically, I don't see any issues, but I wouldn't want someone > to read this months from now and take it that it is OK to link to a > website offering downloads of AOO with bundled malware, or that we're > going to do link exchanges with no value added. > > (It might be appropriate to link to, from our download page, 3rd party > sites that merely host unmodified versions of AOO, like CNet, > FileHippo, Amazon.com, etc. But that is a slightly different topiuc) > > > Conclusion. > > > > DE page can have news about PrOOo and point to a Germanophone 3rd party > page. > > > > In this case, yes. > > Regards, > > -Rob > > > > Regards, > > Dave > Thanks Dave. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius." -- Kim Cattrall
