Am Tue, 5 Oct 2010 13:33:35 +0200 schrieb Thorsten Behrens <t...@documentfoundation.org>:
> > A foundation per se is a great thing, but when there are two source > > code repositories and two final products then "this project" is > > either schizophrenic or it is actually two projects. And being > > schizophrenic is not a healthy state of mind. > > > Then OOo 3.2.1, 3.2 etc. are forks, too? No, because they get contributed to the main development codeline (aka DEV300). > And surely, in this day and age, we have at least as many source > code repositories as there are active developers in the project - as > with DSCMs, everyone has his local clone anyway. I find the attempt > to argue on the grounds of technicalities rather ironic, when, in > reality, all this is about is community. Which is not a problem at all as long as these repositories can freely interchange their code. With diverting codelines that will be very hard for a huge project as is OOo. > > If do want not contribute to that under the current conditions > > there are only two mutually exclusive choices: Either try to > > change the conditions in the existing project or start your own. > > > Quite. Currently we're trying to change the conditions with, and > within, the existing project. You argue we are not entitled to do > so, and I wonder where that authority comes from. I am not saying you are not entitled to do so. I am saying, and that is just a personal opinion, that trying to change the conditions in the project is getting harder when you are creating an incompatible branch at the same time. Best Regards, Bjoern -- Oracle Bjoern Michaelsen | Software Engineer Phone: +49 40 2515230 | Fax: +49 40 256811 Oracle Office GBU ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Nagelsweg 55 | 20097 Hamburg ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Rijnzathe 6, 3454PV De Meern, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz, Marcel van de Molen, Alexander van der Ven Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
