Hi Andre, On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 02:54:27PM +0100, Andre Fischer wrote: > I can accept "longwinding release cycles" but not "slow developement > velocity". After all Sun/Oracle has been the biggest contributor > for OpenOffice. LibreOffice is still integrating features made by > Sun/Oracle (it has just been a month or two since my new Impress > slide sorter turned up in LibreOffice.)
Sorry, that wasnt meant to be derogative. I think we can agree upon Sun/Oracle being quite a bit more conservative wrt to how to implement changes, which resulted in a higher overhead to get features completed. A more aggressive use of the developer resources available to Sun/Oracle would have allowed much faster progress. > You are right that our old release process was not the best. Still, > I would choose friendlier words. I do not intend to offend the developers involved. But the fact that the *.deb files published the OOo website were rarely downloaded and didnt even install without some major tweaking on default installs show that *nix packaging was never a priority at OOo. > Well, no. After all, OpenOffice.org is not dead. It just got a new home. The project OpenOffice.org is dead, the trademark obviously survived as it is currently owned by a different project with a different name: Apache OpenOffice (Incubating) Best, Bjoern
