On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 2:27 AM, Guy Waterval <waterval....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Rob, > Hi all, > > 2013/3/26 Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> > >> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Well no doubt this may start a rather heated discussion. I started >> looking >> > into the history of the Base component, who is using it now (looked into >> > Forums, users discussion list), and finally came upon the following FAQ >> > (edited a LOT just recently): >> > >> >[...] >> > > >> So the future is likely going to look like one of the following: >> >> 1) We encourage a critical mass of volunteers interested in >> maintaining, improving, testing, documenting, supporting, etc., Base. >> As we know achieving critical mass is made more difficult by the >> senseless forking of the project, which hurts LibreOffice Base users >> as well. >> > > Why not approach Libo on this question and try to obtain a shared > collaboration on Base ?. After all, they have the same problem. Perhaps > they could agree on this question which should appear as a win win party. > Just an idea. >
We (IBM) have attempted, several times, to raise this topic of code collaboration with the corporate sponsors of LibreOffice: SUSE and Redhat. Unfortunately, our overtures have been rebuffed each time. But we won't stop trying. -Rob > A+ > -- > gw > >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
