Future of the LibreOffice/OpenOffice add-on

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We’ll make some changes to LanguageTool’s LibreOffice/OpenOffice add-on: For years, the add-on has been maintained only by a single person (@Fred.Kruse), so we think it makes sense to turn the add-on into an external project that’s not officially maintained by LanguageTool anymore. What it means is this:

  • The source code has been moved it its own repo (see here)
  • The translations have moved to that new repo, too
  • There will be no further nightly snapshots of the .oxt provided by LT
  • The add-on will be available in the stores (LibreOffice, OpenOffice), but LT will not make new major releases for now

The status of the add-on is now the same as many other add-ons: It’s community-supported, but not supported by LT anymore. Anybody is free to fork the new repo and work on their fork, of course.

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Please note the following post:

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The successor to the LibreOffice extension of LanguageTool is WritingTool. The repository and documentation for WritingTool has changed.
All information about the application is now available at: https://writingtool.org
The download page for snapshots is here: Index of /writingtool/snapshots
The download page for releases is here: Index of /writingtool/releases
The repository for WritingTool is now here: https://github.com/writingtool-org/writingtool
Errors and minor extension requests can be reported here: https://github.com/writingtool-org/writingtool/issues
Discussions and further suggestions (forum) can be discussed together here: https://github.com/writingtool-org/writingtool/discussions

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