Hi all, On a Dutch IT news website I read an article titled "Development of OpenOffice.org increasingly difficult".
http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/21297.phtml Roughly translated: (summary) The introduction of OpenOffice.org 2.0 is delayed. The source code of the project is old and there is a shortage of independent developers (end summary) OpenOffice.org has big problems, as appeared on monday during the yearly miniconference of developers in Australia. The introduction of the final version of OpenOffice.org 2.0 that was planned for this month has been postponed until june or july. The project has less and less independent developers. Sun Microsystems provides the greatest number with about 50 programmers. Novell has 10 people working on the software. Apart from that there are only 4 independent developers. Apart from that the project becomes more difficult because the amount of code becomes too big. "the whole project now consists of more than 10 million lines of code" says Ken Foskey, one of the developers. "The code is more than 20 years old, so you don't have to be a rocket scientist to work on it, although it helps". He therefore advises developers to concentrate on the OpenOffice.org version of Ximian. Foskey says that this project is more in line with the open-source mentality than the original source code. (...) Before I react on the article, I would like to ask the following questions: Is the release officially postponed, can this be considered a sign of acute problems, has OpenOffice.org had more independent developers than it has now, and what is this "Ximian OpenOffice.org" project??? Vriendelijke groet, Simon Brouwer --> nl.openoffice.org <-- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
