On 13 Mar 2012, at 15:37, Armin wrote: > Simon Phipps <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 12 Mar 2012, at 12:50, Rob Weir wrote: >> >>> I jest,of course. >>> >>> But seriously, there are some claiming that "all" of the >>> OpenOffice.org project went over to LibreOffice and that the Apache >>> has zero experience with this code base. I know this sounds crazy, >>> but how can we best refute that statement? >> >> Out of interest, where have you seen that statement from an authoritative >> source? The former community seems spread between the AOO project and >> LibreOffice to me, and all the comments I have seen (and made) occupy that >> reality. > > This is what was in the press, but... Just think about that 3/4 of the > developers (I write developers here by purpose) were Sun employees and none > of them changd over...
I'm not clear on what you're saying, Armin? Are you saying you believe no former Sun developers are working on LibreOffice? There are actually a reasonable number of them working on it, about as many as are working on AOO. Both communities have experienced Hamburg developers involved, augmented by developers with experience from elsewhere. S.
