On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 22:37 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: > Actually, none of this can affect the project unless the project > accepts the work we do. We have a PPMC of what? 50? 60? 70 members? > And how many IBM employees on it? Maybe 6? 7? 8? All we can do is > offer contributions. Remember, even a project Committer does not have > absolute ability to make changes at whim. Changes are reviewed and > can be rejected by other Committers. > > If you are saying that IBM engineers collectively have the ability to > make contributions that could be accepted by the project and by being > accepted would affect the project, then I thank you for the > compliment. But I don't see a problem here. Honestly, we're getting > pretty equal criticism from people suggesting we're not going to > contribute enough as there are people concerned that we're going to > contribute too much.
Thanks Rob for taking the time to allay any fears. One thing I would like to see in OOo that is in Symphony is the tabbed documents interface, that would be a welcome addition to OOo for mine. Cheers GL -- Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html OpenOffice.org Migration and training Consultant.
