> > Is there some larger feature, platform, component, area of work > that is bigger than a GSOC project but not huge enough to be too > expensive that is critically missing, that has a concrete > development plan to work on ? > One of the biggest show-stoppers for keeping new contributors (we have a nice inflow, so no problem there) is our development environment.
Universities today teach students to use IDE, and solely work with that. When I reach out to people who have stopped contributing, the lack of a modern IDE is a major response. The new “gbuildtojson” that Bjoern has made, is a step in the right direction, but we are still far from a goal, where a contributor clone the repo and open his preferred IDE to start working. Investing in: - removing cygwin in Windows - making a auto installer (lode++) - complete gbuildtojson and xx-ide-integration to include prepared solutions for popular IDE (msc, Xcode, eclipse) would help a lot to keep the contributors contributing, and thus help grow the community. I have started a couple of attempts to do this, but the lack of resources and awareness have until now stopped the attempts. I am aware that my POW is not shared by many, but not making the suggestion, would be wrong when wearing my mentoring hat. rgds jan I. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
