I wasn't trying to imply that the fact that OOo sucks is reasonable, it is just the way it is. I think worldwide there are only maybe 20 or so people working on it. By comparison, Microsoft Office has, as I understand it, over a thousand developers working on it.
There is only one person even working on OOo in Ubuntu (me and even then only 20% of my work time) and only one person working on it in Debian as well (I think in his spare time unpaid) so managing to convince more people to work on it will likely be very hard. I am at DebConf 9 this week and there was a session on brainstorming how to get more people to work on large packages like OpenOffice.org and Mozilla and no one was able to come up with any really good ideas. Large projects just seem to scare most people away. The correct place to try to find people to work on this (I think) would be the ubuntu-desktop or ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing lists. If we can find people to actually do the work we can always host example documents, etc in a bzr repo on launchpad without any trouble. Chris -- Compatibility/Format problems of OpenOffice are overwhelming - Office Papercuts project? https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/406328 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
