Bugzilla and User generated content

[Peter Kovacs <le...@gmail.com>]

Hello all,

there is a Issue Report about adding more templates to Open Office 2.XX. 
Again something thats lingering from ancient times.

I wonder how the Process is for such a thing. It is a voluntary act, and 
in the report the OP offers to help.

Is such a template packaging something we would handle through Bugzilla?


Thanks the clarification :-)

All the best
Peter



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Re: Bugzilla and User generated content

[Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>]

Peter Kovacs wrote:
> there is a Issue Report about adding more templates to Open Office 2.XX.
> Again something thats lingering from ancient times.
> I wonder how the Process is for such a thing.

There is a technical trade-off between making more templates available 
in the download and not making the download size too big; and there is 
to consider that we want to pack only rather generic templates; the 
Templates websites exists for people to be able to find and download 
specific templates. So the process would probably involve some 
discussion on this list to make sure we don't add many MBytes to the 
installer and that what we add is useful to many users.

There is also an issue about licenses: embedded templates must be 
contributed under ALv2; this is automatic is people contribute their own 
work as a Bugzilla attachment.

> Is such a template packaging something we would handle through Bugzilla?

It would affect the source code, so yes, it should be handed on 
Bugzilla. But at times the discussion might happen here, to find a 
generic guideline before wasting work.

And by the way the templates we ship at the moment are not so nice, so 
more templates will surely be welcome.

Regards,
   Andrea.

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