Yes, I would assume that many existing people would leave. But, as I mentioned, I would assume (hope) that many people would join, and many of those would be from others in the entire OO eco-system.
Your reply seems to suggest that with the current status of AOO, maintaining an end-user focus is possible. Current evidence, unfortunately, makes that somewhat questionable. The current status-quo is untenable and unacceptable. Change needs to happen. I suggested one route, nothing more, nothing less. > On Sep 2, 2016, at 8:52 AM, RA Stehmann <anw...@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de> > wrote: > > Am 02.09.2016 um 14:14 schrieb Jim Jagielski: > >> >> What is obvious is that the AOO project cannot support, at the present >> time, being an end-user focused effort. I would suggest we focus on not >> being one, but instead being a framework or library that can be consumed >> by actual end-user implementations. >> > > If AOO is not an end-user focused project a lot of people will leave > this community because they will be useless. People who are doing > end-user support, who are doing end-user documentation and are doing > what we call "marketing" etc. > > Also people, who build binaries are obsolet. Only coders will be needed > and I don't know, whether all remained will stay under that conditions. > > I don't see a great difference between that way and a retirement. > > The first way might be the "Apache way", but it is definitely not the > way for and of the OpenOffice community. > > Just my 2 cents. > > Kind regards > Michael > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
