On 10/25/13 4:59 PM, Vladislav Stevanovic wrote: > I wrote: "(...) live AOO because nothing works there." > It should be:"(...) leave AOO because nothing works there."
if an author of an extension is not interested to support AOO anymore we can't change it. Juergen > > Wlada > > > 2013/10/25 Vladislav Stevanovic <stevanovicvladis...@gmail.com> > >> >> Yes, we can do this. It must be marked in anyway. But the situation is >> more complex. AOO now suffer because users can not get functionality as >> they had before. If this extension is important for users work, why should >> someone think that user will stay on AOO? Next, there is also a bad >> marketnig for AOO, see >> http://www.dmaths.org/documentation/doku.php?id=presentation:en The >> message is clear: live AOO because nothing works there. >> To be honest, we create this situation, not users. At list, we must try to >> somehow fix this by pushing authors of extensions to make necessery >> changes, or, if it is possible, that we made some improvement in our code >> and fix this problem. >> >> Regards, >> Wlada >> >> >> 2013/10/25 Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> >> >>> On 10/25/13 11:30 AM, janI wrote: >>>> On 25 October 2013 11:15, Vladislav Stevanovic < >>>> stevanovicvladis...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> 2013/10/25 Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> we can simply define a rule that unmaintained extension will be >>> removed >>>>>> when the owner doesn't reply on mail requests. >>>>>> >>>>>> That means we can send a mail to the owner and if he doesn't reply at >>>>>> all or is not willing to add these information, we remove the >>> extensions >>>>>> completely. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> That is my opinion too, but you have people who still using previous >>>>> version of AOO or Ooo. We must have solution and for those people. >>> Maybe we >>>>> can do this in a few stages: >>>>> 1) We can marked all old extensions as incompatible for AOO4.0. In the >>> same >>>>> time, we will sent meil to the authors of this extensions with request >>> to >>>>> make changes for compatibility for AOO 4.0. in next 6 months. After >>> that >>>>> period, if job is not done, we will remove this extensions. >>>>> >>>> +1 >>> >>> why should we make more noise than necessary, we should mark only >>> extensions where we know that they don't work >>> >>> Juergen >>> >>>> >>>>> 2) Inside this period of 6 months, we will improved filter option for >>>>> searching by version of Oo. On every page on this site there will be >>> notice >>>>> that old extension will be completely removed in the end of 6 month. >>>>> (second option will be: removed in other place, something like >>> backstage; >>>>> it will not be visible in the regular pages like it is now). >>>>> >>>> >>>> Can we not do something so that user will normally only "see" 4.0 >>>> compatible packages ? >>>> >>>> maybe put non-compatible extensions in a archive section, just an idea. >>>> >>>> If we just filter people searching might not see an extension if the >>> name >>>> changed (like pdf). >>>> >>>> >>>>> 3) After 6 months, we will sent mail to the authors of extension again >>> that >>>>> we can offer another 7 days to do this changes, if not, we will remove >>> (or >>>>> move in some other place) this extension. In the mail, we can also say >>> that >>>>> we will be happy to see this changes, to keep this known extension in >>> live. >>>>> But, if that not happens, we will calling our community to make new >>> version >>>>> for AOO4.0. because it is our obligations to ensure the availability >>> of all >>>>> existing features. >>>>> >>>> I would do the move (not remove) without any further delay. >>>> >>>> rgds >>>> jan I. >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Comment, please? >>>>> Regards, >>>>> Wlada >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 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
