Quoting Nicolas Mailhot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Le mardi 19 avril 2005 � 14:11 +0000, Andrew Brown a �crit :
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
This example can be seen right now on the webdesign project where many
contributions where made and virtually none has been implemented in
what now is
a 6 month period. Another big difference on the projects is the actual
documentation to build on top of OOo. Sun developers hasn't put together any
developer documentation to 'get started' on the tree.
The masive UNO bible got not much demand because there weren't digested by any
developer who wan't to start munching the code. A big difference once it's
compared to the Ximian documentation where they have small tasks for
first-time
coders. This is because Ximian people understand the nature of and
life-cycle of
contributors and is actively looking for small independent contributors.
Something tells me that what Sun want's is size, they want big
corporates/companies to engage into the development. Something that Sun has
always done pretty much. I wonder if such thing happen, will there be a change
on the resources avaialble for other developers.
Another difference this time with the KDE development (regarding to
KOffice) is
that there has been a masive explotion of periferial applications that connect
to the KOffice enviroment. This has make not only a modularized active code to
work, but also enhance the extendability of the application.
Impressively enough now KOffice not only can save as PDF but open PDF and edit
them, something it just seem very far to reach under OpenOffice.org
--
Alexandro Colorado
Co-Leader of OpenOffice.org Spanish
http://es.openoffice.org/
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