On 21 Jul 2013 16:07, "Andrea Pescetti" <pescetti@apache.org> wrote:
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> No problem. OpenOffice 4 is already on mirrors and will be announced in a couple of days, so I've put the exact release date on the wiki page, thus revealing a very badly kept secret...
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Nice to see a release at long last - I'll be very interested to review the release notes and see how it compares to LibreOffice.

> Not yet, only on F19 so far. The final source package was approved 2 days ago.
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But the AOO project has had nightlies for a while - have these not had build tests carried out on rawhide?

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> I don't know more than you (or the rest of this mailing list audience) do here...
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It will be worth reaching out to them actively in order to ascertain how much AOO will need to be modified to fit in... Or get conflicts in place with FPC/FESCO approving them...

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> Pushing back when a software does not exist yet is just reasonable. Pushing back when a software does exist is a little less reasonable, since the conflict is probably (and I welcome the opinion of the LibreOffice maintainers too) not big enough to justify, by itself, a push-back.
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But right now it didn't exist... Or at least not on a state that complies with fedora packaging guidelines...

What's the radon this is being put forward as a self contained change as opposed to following the usual process for a new package?

How far through these steps are you right now?

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers