On 06.08.2013 15:43, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: >> I think it is more "tact" than "luck". But we have had some success >> in making such requests in the past, generally quiet requests directly >> to the developer. Most open source developers write code because they >> want it to be used and for people to benefit from it. So if you give >> them an opportunity for their code to be even more widely used, this >> aligns with their goals as well. But such requests must be made >> quietly, via private email, since there is a lot of peer pressure to >> be uncooperative with Apache. > > mmh, I don't like this under the hood tactic, I would prefer a public > blog post to invite developers to provide their patches under ALv2 to > make them available to all users of any OpoenOffice derivative. > > Why not asking directly? I personally don't care about people shooting > against me, especially not if their reasons are so stupid and against my > understanding of open source. > > Really open minded people will see the benefit of contributing to the > core and fix problems where the code intially comes from.
An under the hood tactic wouldn't work, because the AOO sources are open, so everybody can see contributions coming from "LibreOffice developers". You can't keep the contributions secret. So IMO ask them in an open way - hoping to find open minded people. Regards Michael
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