Re: Draft blog post on FreeBSD port of AOO

[Maho NAKATA <ma...@apache.org>]

Hi Rob,

thank you very much!

Best
 Nakata Maho

From: Rob Weir <ro...@apache.org>
Subject: Re: Draft blog post on FreeBSD port of AOO
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:56:42 -0500

> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Maho NAKATA <ch...@mac.com> wrote:
>> Hello Rob and Pedro,
>>
>> Looks good to me. Thank you very much for polishing!
>> So please go ahead.
> 
> 
> OK.  The blog post is now published:
> 
> https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/apache_openoffice_has_been_ported
> 
> Let's share via social networks, blogs, etc.
> 
> I've shared on Twitter and Google+ if anyone wants to RT or Share these posts:
> 
> http://twitter.com/rcweir/statuses/174870013738614784
> 
> https://plus.google.com/u/0/110021943609888508798/posts/NiZKSUQZopB
> 
> -Rob
> 
>> Anyway, here are my photos:
>> http://accc.riken.jp/maho/200811152043001.jpg
>> http://accc.riken.jp/maho/IMG_1067.jpg
>>
>> Thanks,
>>  Nakata Maho
>>
>> From: Rob Weir <ro...@apache.org>
>> Subject: Re: Draft blog post on FreeBSD port of AOO
>> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:15:59 -0500
>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Pedro Giffuni <pf...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>> On 02/27/12 13:30, Rob Weir wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> This is based on a draft from Maho, with some additional edits from
>>>>> me.  Please take a look and suggest improvements:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=apache_openoffice_has_been_ported
>>>>
>>>> If Maho approves, I have some suggestions:
>>>>
>>>> To the end of the first paragraph add " Maintaining this new port
>>>> in Apache source tree helps improve the overall portability of
>>>> the system and provides another valuable testing environment."
>>>>
>>>> The second paragraph, may sound better "FreeBSD is a free operating system
>>>> based on Berkeley's 4.4 BSD source release." Add a last sentence in that
>>>> paragraph: "Since the origins of the Internet it has been known to break ftp
>>>> performance records and power important sites like Yahoo, Hotmail and the
>>>> ASF infrastructure."
>>>>
>>>> change (old) OpenOffice.org --> legacy OpenOffice.org
>>>>
>>>> Instead of MN and PG --> maho@ and pfg@
>>>>
>>>> The FreeBSD team did not create fork. --> The FreeBSD team did not fork.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps add "In FreeBSD, OpenOffice and LibreOffice porters share their
>>>> efforts
>>>> in a common mailing list: office@FreeBSD.org.
>>>>
>>>> The "Notably, Jung-uk Kim ..." line should be moved to the end of the
>>>> "Historically," paragraph.
>>>>
>>>> "Technically, porting is not difficult."  --> "Technically, porting has not
>>>> been very difficult.".
>>>> After " ... linux and FreeBSD are very similar", I would add "MacOSX and
>>>> FreeBSD also
>>>> share many similarities which have helped improve both ports."
>>>>
>>>> I would put that paragraph before the "Since the OpenOffice project
>>>> migrated".
>>>>
>>>
>>> OK.  I made those changes on the draft.
>>>
>>> One thing that is not clear to me is the reference to the "dynamic
>>> liner issue".  Would it be worth linking to a bug report or something
>>> to explain what this was?
>>>
>>> -Rob
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Maybe we could get photographs of Maho and Pedro as well?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Maybe just Maho's since he is the one signing ;).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Pedro.
>>>
>