Hi,
jonathon wrote:
Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg wrote:
have no bearing on where the project goes,or what it does.
you still did not provide the links ...
Since I didn't bookmark them, I'm not going to spend then
fifteen or so hours required to find them on the wiki and
OOo website.
If you read my first message in this thread, it asked if you
could find the roadmap for OOo 4.0 on either the wiki, or
the main website. Look for that, and you'll probably
stumble across all of the other invalid roadmaps.
Since OOo is run as a cathedral style project by Sun, that
shouldn't make any difference.
That _is_ wrong. Though there may be the impression, this should be fixed.
The only way that will be fixed is if Sun is fired.
If you are not a Sun employee you will not get commit access
to the main branch of OOo?
Not true, every domain developer has commit access to the main branch,
and that includes many outside Sun. Still nobody except release
engineering is supposed to directly commit to the main branch except in
an emergency and yes this holds for Sun developers as well as the rest
of community. This is very normal for all sorts of software projects,
open source and otherwise. Direct developer commits to the main branch
is a major no no for any project beyond a certain size. We use feature
branches for a purpose.
DO you realize that Sun has deliberately rejected
contributions to OOo that would have improved its
operability for some individuals?
That contributions might be rejected holds for absolutely every open
source project of any consequence. Ever tried to get something into the
Linux kernel? It's about as easy as besieging a medieval castle or so.
Contributions are first evaluated by the maintainer of the affected
subsystems and that are by no means only Sun employees. The last word
has a committee in which community members from outside Sun and Sun
employees are present.
There are many reasons why a contribution is rejected. The feature might
not be consistent with the rest of the application, the implementation
is not sound, the behavior is not clear specified, or simply the further
maintenance of the piece of code is not clarified. This happens all the
time in open source projects.
Do you realize that Sun has rejected source code that would
have improved the functionality of OOo?
See above.
[...]
Heiner
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