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The Document Foundation announces the members of the Engineering Steering Committe The body coordinates development activities and defines the technology evolution of LibreOffice The Internet, May 23, 2011 - The Document Foundation presents the members of the Engineering Steering Committee, the second body to be announced - after the Membership Committee - of those envisioned by the foundation bylaws. The ESC has come into being in early 2011, and is now officially in place to coordinate all development activities and set future technology directions. The 10 members of the ESC are Andras Timar (localization), Michael Meeks and Petr Mladek of Novell, Caolan McNamara and David Tardon of RedHat, Bjoern Michaelsen of Canonical, Michael Natterer of Lanedo, Rene Engelhard of Debian, and the independent contributors Norbert Thiebaud and Rainer Bielenfeld (QA). The ESC convenes once a week on the Internet, to discuss the progress of the time based release schedule and coordinate the activities. The members have been elected by the community of developers, which has been steadily growing since late September 2010 and is now close to 200 code hackers and 200 people involved in localization and QA. "This is a phenomenal success", says Bjoern Michaelsen of Canonical, "especially if you look at the OOo project, where external contributors were a small group, and had to deal with significant obstacles". Developers hacking LibreOffice code on a regular basis are around 120, and are divided in three groups based on their experience: 20 core developers working on features and patches, and packaging the software; 40 more regular devs working on features, patches and easy hacks; and 60 less regular devs working on patches, easy hacks and code cleaning. In addition, there are around 80 developers who are contributing occasionally, or have just started to dig into the code. "The ESC has brought the necessary discipline in the development process, which is organized in a completely different way from the past at OOo, where there was a single company in charge of the decisions which was at the same time a strength - as it was easy to coordinate - and a single point of failure", says André Schnabel, a member of TDF Steering Committee. "We have built an independent process, where the corporate sponsors are still very important but the community is able to bring forward the software even without paid developers". -- Antón Méixome - TDF member 105 Blog about Galician Office Suite Galician community OOo.org & LibO http://blog.openoffice.gl // http://blog.libreoffice.gl -- Correo a [email protected] para saber como desubscribirse O arquivo está dispoñible en http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/gl/discuss/ As mensaxes enviadas a esta lista terán arquivo público, non se poderán borrar
