On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:01 AM, RA Stehmann <anw...@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de> wrote: > 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. >
Actually, it does work. It has happened on several occasions, even with AOO 4.0. I think you are mixing up two things: asking privately and contributing publicly. These are not contradictory. In any case, I'd challenge anyone to point to an example where the contrary approach worked: asking publicly on the LO mailing list. -Rob > So IMO ask them in an open way - hoping to find open minded people. > > Regards > Michael > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
