https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=3959
--- Comment #342 from orcmid <[email protected]> --- (In reply to ther from comment #338) [ ... ]> Who are these programmers that have declared the feature to be important? > > p3 trivial??? (In reply to liotier from comment #340) > Is anyone here familiar with how this is done around here ? Setting-up a > kickstarter-style bounty fund seems feasible, but are any of the developers > with sufficient knowledge of OO interested ? > > If none of the developers with sufficient knowledge of OO is interested, > then an hired outsider will have to spend an awful lot of effort getting > familiar with it - this changes the budget quite a bit. The p3 trivial is meaningless and I do not know how that was assigned. Ignore that. It doesn't matter what that is, since no one is assigned to it. I provided a summary of comments that *were* from project developers and these all were affirmative about the importance of the feature *and* about the difficulty of providing it based on how the document is presented in graphical user interfaces. See comment #299 <https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=3959#c299>. Most of the debate here does not involve "insiders" at all. I don't recall seeing any arguments against the unnecessary need for the feature are not from developers on the project. They are from AOO advocates, but not from the project. Here are all of the recognized AOO committers, <http://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html#openoffice>. Not all of them are active at this time -- committer rights do not go away, generally. Below that list is the list of current members of the AOO Project Management Committee (PMC). The PMC's function is to nominate and invite new committers and PMC members and to deal with any private matters that must be handled with discretion (i.e., security issues, requests that someone makes in confidence such as for use of the trademarks, and so on). With regard to funding. As a project of the Apache Software Foundation, Apache OpenOffice does not accept direct funding. One can make contributions to the ASF, but they generally cannot be targeted. It is possible, of course, to fund a *developer* or a team of developers, if one found a *credible* team that is willing to do it and can provide a budget for what it would cost, including testing and integration into an AOO release. They would need to consist of established committers who could arrange a way to work the changes into the code base (on a branch, say) and pull together all of the changes that would be needed, stage them somehow, ensure good QA, etc. A kickstarter would have to be created by someone making a credible offer to accomplish the work. I think that is tricky, because it involves a serious commitment and it could fail to succeed within the funding and any promised schedule. So we're back to finding the capacity to do the job "on spec" and then willing to loft a kickstarter to fund it. It would be interesting to see what the minimum funding would be, and also what the stretch goals might be. There needs to be some serious up-front feasibility work before seeking funding, I would say. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the issue. You are the assignee for the issue.
