On Jun 2, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > > To answer Jim's email, I think that while OOo and LibreOffice don't have to > be competitors, I would not necessarily want to decide why we should split > development efforts. I 'm sure the Apache Foundation has experience in > dealing with Free and Open Source Software projects but I don't think it > make sense to to split communities and give a specific role to each of them.
All I'm saying is that we have options available to us, options that up until a day or so ago, NO ONE in the OOo/LOo community had. No one. So let's take some time to look at them and discuss them ;) > > I do have a question though. To me it's unclear whether the Openoffice > project has any real development ressources. I see so far one developer and > Rob, who I know to be a distinguished engineer from IBM but who has never > contributed code to OpenOffice, if I recall. I'm a bit surprised by this as > TDF has now over 200 developers, paid and unpaid and I was under the > impression that this number was not deemed to be enough by IBM. The initial list has grown and I expect it to continue to; up until it was announced, no one new about it, so it was kinda impossible to get a more comprehensive list. Now that people do know about it, people are signing on. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
