clarify

Igor Belogorodsky <[email protected]> Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:38:06 +0000 (GMT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.openoffice.devel.general
Message-ID <1500131140.363288.1310690286027.JavaMail.mail@webmail04>
There are some question I'd like to ask<br /><br />1. It's been announced t=
hat OpenOffice project was donated to Apache Software Foundation as incubat=
or project.<br />what does it exactly mean?&nbsp; will there be a new websi=
te and they said that they'll be moving the source code somewhere on the Ap=
ache side.<br />does this mean there will be a new way of accessing the ope=
noffice.org?<br /><br />2.&nbsp; I'm a seasonal programmer and I'd like to =
contribute.&nbsp; The documentation for getting the source and start progra=
mming is too much confusing.<br />There are multiple applications with litt=
le documentation or too much written and nothing to the point.<br />First o=
f all, I have Windows system and don't have any other choice.&nbsp; Second,=
 the documentation is written in genetic format, of variety of platforms at=
 the same time and is very confusing.<br />What I would like to see is some=
thing straight to the point: a. this is Windows, this is how you do it.&nbs=
p; b. this is Linix, this is how you do it etc.<br />If you'd like to see a=
n example of a wiki, look at Wikipedia.org. &nbsp; It's arranged by the lan=
guage that people use, hence I would see it platform by platform.<br />The =
documentations seems to be outdated a bit.&nbsp; I could even write some if=
 I know what to do.&nbsp; and the other thing is, are we waiting until the =
openoffice.org moves to another platform at Apache, so to avoid doing a use=
less work.<br /><br />3. I've installed the free software necessary to acce=
ss the code and compile, debug etc.&nbsp; I is very difficult to configure.=
&nbsp; A lot of different pices working together.<br />&nbsp;I downloaded M=
inGW, Mercurial, some other things.&nbsp; I don't know what to do with it.&=
nbsp; I spend hours just to figure something out.&nbsp; I don't think it's =
efficient enough.<br />Again, I'd like to see better guidance.&nbsp; I woul=
d write some of it myself.<br /><br />4. anyway, what's happening to the pr=
oject (question 1 again)<br />I'd like to see better wiki and clearer docum=
entation and better organized.&nbsp; Somebody has to do it.<br /><br />So i=
f you're willing to answer any of these questions, it would be appreciated.=
<br /><br /><br />-sunnybay