Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 84613
Credits URL in About box and splash screen no longer maintained
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:27:30 UTC
Other builds' About box credits contributors; Mac's points to the out of date and deprecated http://..../credits.html. It's no longer being maintained and has not been since 2005. The Mac About box needs to be updated. thanks louis
changed platform from DEC (!).
Created attachment 50352 [details] Screenshot of the splash screen on Mac OS X
This is the same url as in the splash screen. I'm sure this will affect other platforms too.
This is not a mac only issue. It affects all platforms. I don't know who would be responsible for changing these 2 urls. Maybe it would be simpler to maintain that page for backwards compatibility?
Who is in charge of the page http://www.openoffice.org/welcome/credits.html
martin is usually. but we have not used that page since 2005, as I thought the About Box had the info.
Very few people actually know how to get that information from the about dialog, as it is an obscure keyboard shortcut. It is also nice to have this information online too. If that page was deprecated in 2005, then none of the 2.x series of releases should have had that URL embedded in to the programme.
I'd be happy to keep the info online if it's easier to maintain. But I have no idea whom to add. Louis
*** Issue 92244 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
As far I can see http://www.openoffice.org/copyright/copyrightapproved.html contains newer informations
yes, but the copyrightapproved list doesn't contain any Sun employees or any persons which contributed to the code basis before we went opensource. So the credits list need to be copyright approved plus some more individuals. I'd also prefer to have just individuals in the credit list, not Companies.
Is it possible to merge the two lists to a new one
I don't think we want to merge the two lists. They contain different information. I think, rather, that we want to maintain a list that fairly and accurately reflects contributions, actual contributions. A process that exists on paper is for project leads to name contributors; these names then get added to the list. We have not been doing that, obviously. But I think we should resume the practice, and synchronize it with the launch of 3.0. Martin? Louis
worksforme. the welcome/credits.html is up-to-date again (has last-change date of 2010/02/26 17:49:29)
closing.
Reopen because the welcome/credits.html seems to be up-to-date but don't contain all distributors which sign the SCA
should the welcome credits contain that? If so, why not just point them to that URL, the copyrightapproved.html page. Louis
Pointing to the copyrightapproved.html page is a good idea. http://www.openoffice.org/copyright/copyrightapproved.html And we should have a systematic way to update the page. http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=84438
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