On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Kazunari Hirano <khir...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 > >> == Background == >> The ODF Toolkit Union was jointly announced by Sun and IBM at the >> OpenOffice.org Conference in Beijing, November 2008. > https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/jhpOvocJCrShDVkE8lObEQ?feat=directlink > https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/WkrnKIHG-ecC7llqFXc63w?feat=directlink > It was an exciting announcement! > :)
Yes, that was a very nice conference. > This proposal is similar to > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal > but it doesn't have the following phrase. > "In order to help encourage the creation of a broad and diverse > project built upon merit, as required of an Apache project, we have > not loaded the initial committer list with contributors from a single > company. Our intention is for the initial committer list to be > representative of the various users of ... It is perfectly all right > to have your name on this list if you contribute in another way than > to commit program code." > > Does this phrase also apply to > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ODFToolkitProposal > ? OpenOffice is an end-user product. So in addition to coding, the project needs other skills like user interface design, translation, application help, marketing, etc. The ODF Toolkit is a developer SDK, for Java programmers. So end users will not use the deliverables of this project directly. They would only use it, indirectly, when it is used by another end-user facing application. So there is no UI, no translations, etc. There will be documentation, but it will be developer-oriented documentation, mainly in the form of JavaDoc and tutorials. So I do welcome additional contributors. But I want to be clear that the ODF Toolkit project has a different audience than OpenOffice, and the project will benefit from a different mix of skills. -Rob > > Thanks, > khirano > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
