On 04/23/2014 03:16 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> On 20/04/2014 Kay Schenk wrote:
>> Many Linux distros maintain "community" repositories and perhaps its
>> easiest to use that sort of mechanism for reintegration.
>
> Not to diminish this thread (on the contrary, there were a number of
> good messages, insightful remarks and a very diverse participation, I'm
> finding it very inspirational so far!), but indeed it would be time to
> stop talking and start doing.
Indeed! :)
I will be summarizing this thread and putting it on cwiki in our
planning area just to make it easier to again find all these good ideas.
>
> The "community repositories" solution outlined by Kay above is the
> simplest one in our case. As a project, we are able to do (and we
> actually do!) things that are much more complex than that.
Onward and upward to learning how to build and put AOO into the
community repository at openSUSE! :)
>
> Official support in distributions is more difficult to obtain and
> requires obeying different policies, so I see it as a second step. But a
> first, feasible, step, is to experiment with unofficial repositories
> that allow terminal-averse Linux users (they exist, it seems) to get
> OpenOffice 4.1. I'm interested in doing some work personally in this
> direction, and I've already taken some basic steps; if anyone wants to
> join the effort, please say so and we may get it done sooner!
>
> Regards,
> Andrea.
>
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