I resonate with these remarks (two extracts below). I particularly want to acknowledge all of the work that Kay Schenk and several others have put into making AOO more approachable by new developers.
-- Extract #1 -- From: Kay Schenk [mailto:kay.sch...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 10:17 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL [ ... ] Ongoing maintenance and new developer knowledge are more a factor to me than "bells and whistles", really. [ ... ] -----Original Message----- From: Louis Suárez-Potts [mailto:lui...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 10:21 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL [ ... ] More to the point, and trying to be realistic…. OpenOffice is right now on maintenance mode, as far as I can tell. We will issue a 4.1.2 and probably further micro releases addressing bugs, midges, and gnats. But we’re not slaying dragons nor otherwise attempting ambitious projects. And it’s not a matter of bells and whistles—of glitter to appeal to fools who can’t otherwise see the gold. [It's a] matter of creating a product that the millions who are going to be using open source productivity applications can actually use on the platforms and environments they are given or buy. These will continue to be desktops (including laptops) but also mobile devices. That is: the future is not like the past and to pretend it is and will continue to so seems to me problematical. Yet any transition is bound to demand resources we can’t pull out of thin air. [ ... ] But I also still believe that OpenOffice has a future and that investigating ways in which we can make OpenOffice not only easier to work on but to use would serve us—the overall community—well. [ ... ] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
