jan i wrote:
Its basicually the same discussion I experienced when I joined 2 years ago, not much have changed..
I'm mostly ignoring this thread since it is based on a premise that is not true. But you make some good points below, so I'll address them.
It is also a fact (SADLY) that LO and AOO will never be one again....but should that be a reason to continue wasting volunteer time
Obviously, not. I've long said that I would find it perfectly reasonable to have one community with two products (to cite a scenario you haven't covered, QA would be a great use case too). We co-organized a common devroom at FOSDEM 2014 and will do the same for 2015, so this is more than words.
Doing that would require only 3 changes: a) all common code must be multi licensed, which is the case for most of code already. b) AOO should grant LO committers committer status and visa versa. c) The people "in charge" should be told that this is what the communities want, and make it happen.
This is a very simplified view of things. But for sure if a developer contributes useful code to OpenOffice he will be offered committer status by OpenOffice. Honestly, I believe you are overlooking corporate interests (not in the Apache project, but in other projects) here. But this scenario looks very good to me, if implemented properly.
One way of showing, that AOO is a vibrant community, would be to publish the result of the recent survey (I dont know the reason why it has not been published)
Just read my mail: http://markmail.org/message/k2hf7qwbf3c5wi7u ; results will be shown in my talk at ApacheCon in November.
I felt it next to impossible to get processes started to make our community more active.
And hopefully we are already proving you wrong. It's a fact that in recent weeks we got more code contributors actively involved with providing patches than in any similar periods before. And we are not going to stop here...
we do need to accept facts, stop discussing and start doing !
We have already started doing. And we'll continue, with your help and everybody else's.
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