Hi Uri,
The problem with public participation in the Hebrew OOo effort is the high
cost of maintaining knowledge of how to build OOo. OOo does not build
out-of-the-box like Apache or Squid. You have to set up a complex
development environment. Just learning how to build OOo takes about six
months for a talented programmer. There's just too much that you have to
learn in order to do the build - before you start hacking the application
itself.
What we are considering offering is a Tinderbox-like server that has the
development environment already set up and tested with recent code. TkOS
will take care of environment problems and build issues for developers who
will commit to making serious contributions (read: according to the work
plan set by the MoF and Sun, the sponsors).
The code changes for the Hebrew OOo are being merged back into OOo, as
anyone who follows the OOo porting and dev lists already knows. This
process will probably take another month, but it's not relevant to the
development server service that we are thinking of offering.
- yba
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Uri Sharf wrote:
> Shachar Shemesh wrote:
>
> > Jonathan suggested that, as Tk are doing that anyways, Tk will set up a
> > system where people from the community can log in (either remotely or
> > pay them a visit in Jerusalem), and use their facilities to hack
> > OpenOffice. The precise details are a little sketchy at the moment, but
> > interested parties are welcome to contact him and express their interest.
> >
>
> I may as well not be up2date on this, but just wondering why isn't the
> code beeing merged back to the main tree, allowing anyone, from Israel
> or outside of it, to participate using which ever means available to
> them, the way they do with OOo itself?
>
> 10x
>
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