Le mardi 19 avril 2005 Ã 14:11 +0000, Andrew Brown a Ãcrit : > Erwin Tenhumberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > Some people might interpret the article in a way that the ration > > between 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? > > I'd have thought it was a gross over-estimate, frankly. I can't think of > a single addition to the functionality of OOo 2.0 that has come from > outside Sun.
Right, and Sun wrote HSQLDB too? The atmosphere on ooo lists is so Sun-centric I can understand non-Sun contributors prefer to work through separate projects like Ximian oo.o. Just because you won't hear them here, and a lot of their stuff does not seem to end up in core oo.o (though it's used by all linux distributions) does not mean they do nothing. To be fair, I do believe a lot of Linux organisations decided long ago it was more effective to focus developer efforts on projects where the patch acceptance ratio was higher (ie GNOME). So contributions are minimalistic now but don't blame people when there are so many worthwhile projects that make it easier to contribute. Example of dropped work : back in oo.o 1.x time ximian oo.o started replacing the ugly openoffice artwork with gnomish modern stuff. Instead of building on that effort Sun chose to do its own thing in OpenOffice.org 2 (and users still complain today the result is unprofessional). Now I doubt you'll find anyone ready to spend time on prettifying oo.o buttons - Sun has make it clear any changes here won't be accepted. -- Nicolas Mailhot
