On 6 Jul 2011, at 23:19, Rob Weir wrote: > I think we're transitioning from a formally coordinated model led by a > corporation to a model that will have less formal coordination > structures. This is necessary to grow the project in the absence of > corporate control. But it will take some time to get used to it.
I've always assumed that the extremely careful approach the development team was using was more a function of the size, complexity and intra-dependency of the code than of corporate control. It is amazing how a small, obvious change in one part of OOo can result in a nasty intermittent fault in another part... S.
