I replied to Shachar's mail on Hamakor's list, but I hope people won't hate
me too much for repeating here what I had to say, because I see the discussion
here is much more "lively".
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004, Shachar Shemesh wrote about "Participating in the Open Off
ice development effort":
> version of OpenOffice for Sun. At the meeting I raised the problem where
> people of the community are not able to contribute to OpenOffice, as
> simply keeping a compilable version of the sources is a 100% full time
> job for one engineer. As such, the chances of people from the community
> being able to get in and contribute are low to nill.
>..
> Jonathan suggested that, as Tk are doing that anyways, Tk will set up a
> system where people from the community can log in (either remotely or
While this may be true, and the idea you raised is welcome, I'd like to
remind you and everyone that helping a big project doesn't necessarily
require compiling that big project. In fact, dividing a huge project into
small efforts is an excellent idea, and even more so in the free software
world.
For example, Dan and I developped Hspell (which was later to be incorporated
into OpenOffice) completely outside the OpenOffice framework (and not
solely for OpenOffice's benefit, of course). Similarly, OpenOffice used a
ready-made bidi solution (ICU, I believe?).
OpenOffice could probably use the following help from the community, none of
which really requires compilation, or even coding: (note that I'm just
hypothesizing here - I have no connections to OpenOffice development)
* Continued font development, so that OpenOffice don't need to include
bizarrely-licensed commercial fonts.
* Translation of menu strings
* Translation of help files
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