Re: Best practices for contributing code to both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2012-11-16 Thread Jörg Schmidt
> -Original Message- > From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] > This should be possible. Right now I'm mainly gathering ideas and > feedback. Then I can propose some specific wording. If that is good, > then we can think about translations. Rob, I would really like to to help,

Re: Best practices for contributing code to both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2012-11-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 16/11/2012 jan iversen wrote: There is a nice example of cooperation on l10n, where the project lead of libreOffice uses the list to have a volunteer translate non-AOO files to greek (at least they do not carry the AOO license header). Let's avoid dangerous misunderstandings. The software pr

Re: Best practices for contributing code to both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2012-11-16 Thread jan iversen
There is a nice example of cooperation on l10n, where the project lead of libreOffice uses the list to have a volunteer translate non-AOO files to greek (at least they do not carry the AOO license header). At least to avoid misunderstandings, I think Rob´s thought are highly required so everybody

Re: Best practices for contributing code to both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2012-11-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: The problem: Many (most?) open source contributors are not opposed to AOO or LO. They are just interested in helping out. If they produce a patch, or documentation, fix a bug or add a translation, they want to maximize the public good that comes from that work. You are writin

Re: Best practices for contributing code to both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2012-11-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 4:16 AM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: > Hello, > >> I've heard some discussion and interest in this topic off-list. There >> has been some practical experience, but nothing that we've written >> down or promoted. I'd be interested in seeing if we can come up with >> some solid bes

Re: Best practices for contributing code to both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2012-11-15 Thread Jörg Schmidt
Hello, > I've heard some discussion and interest in this topic off-list. There > has been some practical experience, but nothing that we've written > down or promoted. I'd be interested in seeing if we can come up with > some solid best practices. > > The problem: Many (most?) open source cont

Re: Best practices for contributing code to both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2012-11-14 Thread jan iversen
I learned something again tonight. Since there is an audit trail then your idea is perfect and first of all easy to handle. Jan. On 14 November 2012 20:21, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 2:12 PM, jan iversen > wrote: > > On 14 November 2012 20:01, Rob Weir wrote: > > > >> On Wed, N

Re: Best practices for contributing code to both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2012-11-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 2:12 PM, jan iversen wrote: > On 14 November 2012 20:01, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:57 PM, jan iversen >> wrote: >> > +1 in general to your ideas, it would be VERY nice to have an easy way, >> and >> > the more we all do to make it easy the more develo

Re: Best practices for contributing code to both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2012-11-14 Thread jan iversen
On 14 November 2012 20:01, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:57 PM, jan iversen > wrote: > > +1 in general to your ideas, it would be VERY nice to have an easy way, > and > > the more we all do to make it easy the more developers will work for both > > projects. I do however have one q

Re: Best practices for contributing code to both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2012-11-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:57 PM, jan iversen wrote: > +1 in general to your ideas, it would be VERY nice to have an easy way, and > the more we all do to make it easy the more developers will work for both > projects. I do however have one question. > > Regarding the mark #AOOCONTRIBUTION. It an A

Re: Best practices for contributing code to both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2012-11-14 Thread jan iversen
+1 in general to your ideas, it would be VERY nice to have an easy way, and the more we all do to make it easy the more developers will work for both projects. I do however have one question. Regarding the mark #AOOCONTRIBUTION. It an AOO committer take the code and integrate it, would that not be

Best practices for contributing code to both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2012-11-14 Thread Rob Weir
I've heard some discussion and interest in this topic off-list. There has been some practical experience, but nothing that we've written down or promoted. I'd be interested in seeing if we can come up with some solid best practices. The problem: Many (most?) open source contributors are not opp