On 15.02.2016 23:14, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
> The typical AOO user is a Windows-using non-programmer. I found just > building AOO on Windows a challenging two week project, for which I > needed a lot of help, despite prior familiarity with Subversion and > Cygwin. As a practical matter, most people who need a bug fixed to make > AOO useful to them simply do not have the option of taking it into their > own hands. > > Incidentally, that cultural difference may affect the severity of data > loss bugs. I find someone working for an extended period on a document > with no revision control or off-site backup a little shocking at first > sight. Then I realized I learned about the importance of revision > control and off-site backup on the job, not in my non-programming life. > > Maybe it would be helpful for the PMC to select a very, very short "Most > wanted" list, based on user requests, feedback at conferences etc. That > would help new AOO recruits pick a focus. There are two differences between AOO and most of the other Apache projects. The first is a technical one: The huge size of the code. The second is a "social" one: AOO is an enduser project, and not a project developing code used by it-professionals. Patricia described it well above. So AOO has to find a special "Apache Way" of doing things proper. I'm a living example for that: I'm a member of the PMC without ever having written a single line of code for AOO (Shame on me ;-) ). I think, you won't find such cases in other Apache PMCs. For an OpenOffice supporter it is quite normal doing other things than developing the code: Doing QA, documentation, translation, user support and training, extensions, so called marketing etc. So we have to find procedures, how all these people with different functions can collaborate in a proper way. Just a little more "Food for Thought". Kind regards Michael
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
