Is OpenOffice.org a dead project? On 14 October 2010 20:39, Cor Nouws <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Malte, > > Malte Timmermann wrote (14-10-10 14:57) > >> Cor Nouws wrote, On 10/13/10 20:45: >> > > 1] http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discuss&msgNo=66788 >>> >>> >> Not sure if I got it right: >> >> You are happy about every Oracle OOo developer, because TDF will >> certainly grab everything they can get from the OOo repositories and put >> it into the LO repository. >> > > Hmm, I'm not aware I wrote that, and definitely not an attitude that has my > preference. > > Not hard to not understand, >> > > .. so your shot on this is not correct. > > but what about the part "after some time we >> all can gain from this new situation"? >> >> How can OOo gain from this? >> >> It's not clear to me how contributions to LO will make their way to >> OpenOffice.org. >> >> For me, it looks very much one-way: LO grabbing a lot of stuff from OOo, >> but LO not contributing anything to OOo. >> >> Can you explain? What are TDF's plans wrt contributions to OOo? >> > > You know my excellent qualities in predicting the past ;-) > But ok, since I seem to foresee something, it is fair enough that you ask. > > About direct contributions: > The Document Foundation has no policy: it is up to the individual > developers if they want to commit the code to the OpenOffice.org repository > too. > There are various reasons for wanting to do so, or not. > I know that some of the people delivering to TDF also contribute to OOo. > Possibly we will see a situation that a company with people working in TDF > has a policy that code shall be contributed to OOo to? > > About indirect effects: > There will be more people working on code, and if part of that also comes > in OOo, it is extra. > Also there will be a larger community++, which IMO will have positive > effect in a broader sense. > > About the future: > We do not know yet how our "office-cloud"(C) will look like in say 4, or 13 > months. > It might well be that the things that are set in movement now, will result > in different forms of cooperating. Truly effective and with larger benefits > to all that have interest in our eco-system. > > Kindest regards, > Cor > > > -- > - giving openoffice.org its foundation :: The Document Foundation - > - ideas/remarks for the community council? See > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Marius Popa
