On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MzK > > "Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." > -- Helen Keller > > I've created a wiki page to highlight some of the suggestions. PLEASE feel free to edit it as you see fit! At some point, we can link this in to an FAQ I guess -- https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Linux+@+Apache+OpenOffice -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." -- Helen Keller
