The Document Foundation suggests that all large-scale deployers of LibreOffice use certified developers either directly or via a commercial provider who employs them. How can I get support and help fund development? We encourage others providing un-supported binaries derived from LibreOffice to follow this pattern. TDF is keen to avoid situations where an unsuitable version is deployed at scale, so when used in what would be likely to imply an enterprise situation - more than 10 concurrent documents and/or more than 20 connections - LibreOffice Online will display a prominent "not supported" warning and a link to this page, while continuing to function. However, builds of the latest code suitable for home users and for contributing to development - which is encouraged - are available. Even if it were reasonable to pre-select all the elements of a deployment stack, providing enterprise production binaries would create expectations which could not be fulfilled by volunteer-based support. Since LibreOffice Online requires integration with many other technologies to allow deployment, The Document Foundation will not be maintaining binaries for enterprise use. End-user collaborative self-help is available at. TDF does not offer end-user support for any of the projects it hosts. TDF would welcome provision of a public LibreOffice Online offering by another charity. The task is therefore left to large deployers, ISPs and providers of open source cloud solutions, and several options are already available on the market. This would be a significant growth of scope and not in line with the original mission of the project.
The Document Foundation is not planning to develop and fund a cloud solution similar to existing products from Google and Microsoft, because this would require selection and integration of the other technologies needed for deployment - file sharing, authentication, load balancing and so on - which for desktop LibreOffice is part of the operating system provided by the user. As such, LibreOffice Online can be considered an enabling technology for the public cloud of ISPs or the private cloud of enterprises and large organizations, when integrated - for example - with an enterprise file sharing or a groupware solution. To be fully functional, it has to be integrated with file access and authentication provision from an underlying stack of software.įor anything more than casual use it also needs to be deployed with due consideration for load balancing and other scaling issues. It does not include any form of file system.
LibreOffice Online is a server service built from the main LibreOffice project code, which provides display and collaborative visual editing of a range of document types in a web browser.
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