KOffice on UserBase

Cyrille Berger Skott cberger at cberger.net
Sat Mar 5 08:15:44 GMT 2011


For now, the KOffice download page should reflect what is downloadable as 
koffice 2.3.3, not anything else.

On Friday 04 March 2011, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> On 4 March 2011 15:45, Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org> wrote:
> > I'm a little concerned at some of the recent changes to KOffice pages on
> > UserBase, particularly those on the Download page
> > http://userbase.kde.org/KOffice/Download .  At some point a decision has
> > to be made whether Calligra and KOffice will have separate or joint
> > pages.  As the developments diverge it will probably make sense to have
> > separate ones, but for the moment they could continue to be joint.
> >  However, until such a decision is made, could you both please look at
> > the download page and try to ensure that every link that is given
> > equally addresses both Calligra and KOffice?
> 
> Sorry for the not the optimal edits. As you know kexi and its fixes
> cannot be available in Thomas version of koffice (kexi is removed
> there) and backports are only available if possible for 2.3.x or
> older. The emergency patch fits to 2.3 so is an exception.
> So thanks Thomas and Anne for improving the page.
> 
> Speaking of correctness, neither 'There are two similar office suites,
> KOffice and Calligra, which originate from the same base but have
> separate development tracks.' is strict information because at the
> time of this writing KOffice software is formarly diverging to two
> suites, Calligra one and {unnamed} one, and nothing concrete can be
> said what's up with the KOffice name. It shall be addressed in
> writing.
> I don't think however I'll be insisting on that or checking the pages
> since I and other devs are busy with subsequent maintenance releases
> of KOffice 2.3.x.


-- 
Cyrille Berger Skott



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