Hello Eric, 2011/6/2 eric b <eric.bach...@free.fr>
> Hi, > > Le 2 juin 11 à 17:16, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : > > >> 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 never heard of any line of code from yourself in OpenOffice.org either. > > Can you point us some links please ? I don't pretend to be a developer, never did. > > > > I'm a bit surprised by this as TDF has now over 200 developers, >> > > > That's obviously not true : I myself follow LibreOffice development lists > since the beginning, reading most of the changes and patches, and I don't > see 200 "developers", means people able to write some new feature of fix > serious bugs in any OpenOffice.org derivative product. > > Of course you can add contributions from Oracle devs either, but that's a > lie too, since all OpenOffice.org cws's were added, without Oracle devs > being informed they "contributed" :-) > > Maybe you counted 200 people -say hackers- who contributed in various ways, > simple patches or little removing ? > The definition of developers should be kept simple: people who contribute code This article will give you some data on the "200" people : http://cedric.bosdonnat.free.fr/wordpress/?p=803 Charles.
