I appreciate and am empathetic to all of those carrying the burden of this and the thousands of other RPM packages. As a users of Fedora + RPM Fusion + Cinnamon Desktop as my daily laptop driver since 2011, I love Fedora and am a heavy user of Flatpacks. So thank you all.
That said, I will point out that I have heard of at least 4 enterprise customers who use libreoffice as a headless file conversion utility. I have seen it used in customer facing production workflows, such as a financial user support website to handle file uploads provided by end users, as well as medical health records systems used by hospitals and doctors offices. https://www.libreofficehelp.com/batch-convert-writer-documents-pdf-libreoffice/ I am not asking for a change in strategy. I understand our resource challenges. I only wanted to share this perspective. Packaging the RPMS in EPEL could alleviate the pain for these customers in the RHEL 10 timeframe, as well as a container image (maybe built from the rpms pulled from EPEL?). Hope this is helpful. And again, THANK YOU! Terry Bowling Sr. Product Manager - RHEL Installation & Build Services Experience Red Hat, Inc. On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 2:31 PM Matthias Clasen <mcla...@redhat.com> wrote: > Hey, > > as you've probably seen, the LibreOffice RPMS have recently been orphaned, > and I thought it would be good to explain the reasons > behind this. > > The Red Hat Display Systems team (the team behind most of Red Hat’s > desktop efforts) has maintained the LibreOffice packages in Fedora for > years as part of our work to support LibreOffice for Red Hat Enterprise > Linux. We are adjusting our engineering priorities for RHEL for > Workstations and focusing on gaps in Wayland, building out HDR support, > building out what’s needed for color-sensitive work, and a host of other > refinements required by Workstation users. This is work that will improve > the workstation experience for Fedora as well as RHEL users, and which, we > hope, will be positively received by the entire Linux community. > > The tradeoff is that we are pivoting away from work we had been doing on > desktop applications and will cease shipping LibreOffice as part of RHEL > starting in a future RHEL version. This also limits our ability to maintain > it in future versions of Fedora. > > We will continue to maintain LibreOffice in currently supported versions > of RHEL (RHEL 7, 8 and 9) with needed CVEs and similar for the lifetime of > those releases (as published on the Red Hat website). As part of that, the > engineers doing that work will contribute some fixes upstream to ensure > LibreOffice works better as a Flatpak, which we expect to be the way that > most people consume LibreOffice in the long term. > > Any community member is of course free to take over maintenance, both for > the RPMS in Fedora and the Fedora LibreOffice Flatpak, but be aware that > this is a sizable block of packages and dependencies and a significant > amount of work to keep up with. > > Matthias > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue >
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