Sun and non-Sun developers is something like 50:14. If that really was
the case wouldn't that mean that a little more than 20% of the features (= functionality) in OpenOffice.org 2.0 would have been developed by
non-Sun developers? Is that the case? In addition, calculate the number
of features that have been developed by the 14 and extrapolate that
number to the number of new features/changes that you can find in
OpenOffice.org 2.0. Maybe that exercise leads to a more realistic number
of the size of the larger OpenOffice.org developer community.
Cheers, Erwin
Andrew Brown wrote:
In the Australian Computerworld article about there being not enough developers of OOo/Star Office, Ken Foskey is quoted as saying there are now 50 people working on the program for Sun in Germany. Erwin Tenhumberg replies that he wont talk about numbers, but that the ratio is misleading. This caught my eye because three or four years ago, when I first started using the program, one of the German developers told me that there were over 100 poeple employed on it in Hamburg. I can't run down the email right now, but it did appear one one of the public lists. We have been reading for years about Sun making fresh rounds of layoffs, without any specifics. Occasionally well-known and admired sun developers have vanished from these lists. But to go from around 110 developers to around 50 in four years must have had a bad effect on the program.
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