Qu'en pensez-vous ? Quels peuvent �tre les freins � l'augmentation des d�veloppeurs ?
Florian
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"Lack of developers delays OpenOffice.org"
I won't provide numbers, but I can tell you that the following statement is for sure wrong or at least very misleading:
"Sun is still the largest contributor to the project with some 50 developers in Germany, followed by Novell with about 10 contributors, and only four active community developers."
Just count how many features have been developed by whom and you will find out yourself what the ratios are! I find it misleading to compare contributors with developers. The OpenOffice.org community has many contributors who could also be seen as developers. Many people are doing QA and localization work for example. Also there is no mentioning of the OpenOffice.org developers at Red Hat!?
Simon makes an interesting comment:
"Sun Microsystems' chief technology evangelist Simon Phipps acknowledged the challenges OpenOffice.org faces and put it down to its monolithic code base rather than Sun's contribution governance.
"For something that was originally written for Windows 3.1 and OS/2, the fact that it now runs on Linux and Solaris is a significant achievement," Phipps said.
Phipps said Sun welcomes contributions from both individuals and organizations that use the productivity suite, including big names Like IBM.
"Ask IBM why it uses OpenOffice but doesn't contribute to it," he said."
I also would love to see more features come from external developers, especially from those who sell OpenOffice.org as part of their products. It's also interesting to see who sponsored the last annual OpenOffice.org conference in Berlin.
The full article can be found here. ( Apr 19 2005, 07:56:49 AM CEST ) Permalink Comments [5]
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lu ici : http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/dancer
et pour plus de d�veloppement, ici : http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1530132226;fp;16;fpid;0
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