Jonathan Ben Avraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem with public participation in the Hebrew OOo effort is the high > cost of maintaining knowledge of how to build OOo. OOo does not build > out-of-the-box like Apache or Squid. You have to set up a complex > development environment. Just learning how to build OOo takes about six > months for a talented programmer.
Jonathan, I am sorry, I don't mean to offend anyone involved, but I can't help but ask this question at this time: can it possibly be a sign that "something is definitely wrong"[1]? If this is indeed the case maybe the main development effort (at Sun and elsewhere) should be devoted to providing a sane environment? Before doing anything else? Especially if community involvement is seriously considered? Somehow I have a difficulty imagining an open source project (or, more generally, a project with community involvement at source level) where "just learning how to build [it] takes about six months for a talented programmer." As a matter of fact, how does Sun handle adding new personnel to the project, for growth or turnover, under such circumstances? If every new employee needs 6 months just to learn how to build it, and that's under the condition that he/she is talented... It seems to me that investing six months of a few talented programmers into a redesign of the development/build would be very worth Sun's while, if such redesign is feasible at all. Maybe I am misreading the statement... Sorry again, [1] "One Piece At A Time" by Johnny Cash -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
