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Hello Jomar,


With the exception of the quite good points highlighted by Drew (some
extensions might break or might not work in AOOo) , I think AOOo is free to
point to our own extensions and templates website. Do know, however, that
although we accept FOSS licences only (including Apache!) we do already have
a specific branding of the site and that the extensions are tested and
supposed to work for LibreOffice first. I would not expect too much
compatibility problems for most of the extensions, but the issues will rise
as the time will pass.

so a non-binding +1 to welcome AOOo using our extensions and templates
website.

best,
Charles.

2011/7/12 drew <drew@baseanswers.com>

On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 15:08 -0300, Jomar Silva wrote:
Hi,

There is some discussion going on at the Apache OOo mail list
regarding the place to host extensions
(http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/).

It seems that the current hosting of extensions is facing some
problems, and it will be great if we find a new (and common) home for
the extensions, in a way that both Apache OOo and LibreOffice could
use as a shared extensions repository.

Hi Jomar,

hmmm - that is assuming that the two separate projects will maintain
enough common code base that shared extensions are possible - that is a
requirement that I for one would not want to see enforced. The fact that
we can share extensions today is, IMO, a remnant of a past history and
should not dictate decisions for going forward - so I would not be in
favor our hosting Apache OpenOffice.org branded extensions on a
TDF/LibreOffice service, nor would I be in favor or seeing
TDF/Libreoffice continue to point back to Apache OpenOffice.org for any
future end user services.

One related item here - Templates I think are a totally different
consideration. I can see the ability to share templates between all of
the ODF capable applications as a reasonable goal, a very desirable
goal.

It is extensions that I am concerned with here - to put it simply, I do
not consider LibreOffice a downstream product of OpenOffice.org code any
longer as with this next release if I understand correctly there will be
no merge of OO.o code, nor can I see how Apache OpenOffice can ever be a
down stream of LibreOffice.

Nor am not saying that the two separate projects must diverge for
divergence sake, only that having a shared service would add resistance
to diverging and that is something that I would strongly disagree with -
our options are open as of today and I would prefer to see them stay
that way.

I understand that many people still hope that OO.o and LibreOffice will
somehow blend back into a single project - I can only say that I am not
one of those people.

This idea that there is some finite set of resources is one I take
exception with. In my best judgment the resources assembled here under
TDF/LibreOffice are sufficient to take this project and product
forward.

I wish the folks forming up under Apache to resurrect the OpenOffice.org
project all the best of luck on the project they have decided to
undertake, but I truly believe that their actions should bear very
little weight with the people working here when it comes to
planing/building out our offerings to end users.

Sincerely,

Drew Jensen



We could also do the same to host templates.

Any thoughts about that ?

Best,

Jomar


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