On 09/07/2013 janI wrote:
On 8 July 2013 23:56, Kay Schenk<kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote:
We have an upcoming Board Report due on July 17. Andrea started a
preliminary wiki page for it at:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/2013+Jul
I made a change around genLang. I would like to suggest that we add the
names (apache id) for new commiters/pmc (of course unless we have a policy
saying not to do it).
Thank you for your contributions. CWiki insists that I am "not permitted
to perform this operation", so here is the modified text as I would send
it. Please copy it to CWiki before making other changes.
Apache OpenOffice
Apache OpenOffice is an open-source, office-document productivity
suite providing six productivity applications based around the
OpenDocument Format (ODF). OpenOffice is released on multiple
platforms and in dozens of languages.
Issues for Board Awareness
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OpenOffice, like the ASF as a whole, is hit by the announced policy
change of Apache Extras. The project currently stores several libraries
there, in an area known as ooo-extras, and the build process downloads
them when options like --enable-category-b are used. A solution should
be found at the ASF level.
Community Development/Outreach Progress
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The project added 4 committers (May: dwhytock, akerbeltz, vkadal;
July: pmralbuquerque) and one new PMC member (April: jani) since our
last report in April.
These new committers are primarily involved in the translation efforts
to incorporate additional native language capability into Apache
OpenOffice. Our new PMC member has many years of experience in open
source, and is assisting in administration of our LAMP servers.
A new documentation effort for an end-users manual under the ALv2
licence was started on the OpenOffice Wiki and is progressing well.
OpenOffice is participating in the Google Summer of Code program for
the first time after several years.
Community support forums remain popular with users. The mailing lists
for user support, localization, QA and marketing are quite active. As
Apache OpenOffice is a client product, we continue to investigate ways
to direct users to appropriate support venues. The developer list,
ooo-dev, remains very active.
Product/Project Development Progress
------------------------------------
We will be releasing Apache OpenOffice 4.0 in July, likely the week
of July 15.
This release will feature a new, more modern, user interface, a
reworked directory layout to simplify development and installation,
code updates to allow building on newer platforms and (at least) 23
languages.
In preparation for the upcoming 4.0 release, new rebranding was
undertaken with a public call and survey resulting in the adoption of a
new logo and other graphic elements ready for the release. Many of our
new volunteers were instrumental in this process.
Activities that are already ongoing and will be finalized after the
release date include: the rejuvenate01 branch, to explore using native
platform capabilities and libraries for building rather than
downloading for building as has been done in the past; the IA2
accessibility work; actions for an easier installation and availability
on mainstream Linux distributions; a new localization process, that so
far has seen the source tree cleaned of non en-US messages allowing
normal translation of these parts; a build approach that is
progressively dropping the historical dmake in favor of GNU make.
Taking these kind of development steps will result in both a better
product for end users and simplify development and building for new
developers.
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