On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 01:32, eric b <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 17 juin 11 à 06:40, Greg Stein a écrit : >... >> Please read the ooo-dev mailing list to get a better understanding of >> where we are in the process. I would be surprised if a release is made this >> year. > > Are you serious ? :-/
We have a lot of dependencies to rip out and deal with. We have a lot of files that have not been granted. We have not started any kind of repository migration. Nobody has investigated the tooling for that yet. Some of those cases: it isn't just "remove dependencies" but to rewrite chunks of code because we have to switch libraries (e.g regex handling). This is not simply "run 'make' on ASF hardware". There are a lot of steps. Six months to the end of the year. ... Hey, if it can happen, then great. I'd be freaking happy. But the task seems pretty immense at this point. I'll grant that I may have exaggerated. Four months? Over and over, people keep saying "OO.o is a HUGE COMPLICATED piece of code. IT IS A MESS. HARD TO WORK WITH." and that kind of thing. Either they are trying to scare people off, show how awesome they are that they can deal with it, or they're simply telling the truth. I tend to believe people, so everything built up in my head is that we're going to have a really, really hard time to build and release this thing. > There are several experts of OpenOffice.org build on this list, and wait > more than a month or so, would kill OpenOffice.org. An Apache release is not going to happen in a month. That is pretty clear. Back to that "rewrite code to remove dependencies on copyleft libraries". Let alone the whole repository filtering and migration issue. >... Cheers, -g
