RE: Trouble child OpenOffice

2017-04-19 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
> -Original Message- > From: Andy Wenk [mailto:andyw...@apache.org] > Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 14:26 > To: dev@community.apache.org > Subject: Re: Trouble child OpenOffice > > Hi Raphael, > > this is really sad to hear. The gap between so many users and a > vanishing community de

Re: Trouble child OpenOffice

2017-04-19 Thread toki
On 04/19/2017 09:26 PM, Andy Wenk wrote: > * are there problems in the community - especially among the developers? What has happened to Apache OpenOffice was been entirely predictably. Oracle's offer checked all of the boxes for ensuring that a project would have no developer support. > * is O

Re: Trouble child OpenOffice

2017-04-19 Thread Ted Dunning
Raphael, Why don't you get some folks together and start a company that solicits donations to support OO development and QA work? On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 8:45 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > Hi Raphael, > > Not sure why you aren't trying this conversation on the OpenOffice > Developer list. > > It i

Re: Contribute as a company

2017-04-19 Thread Ted Dunning
Well, articles like that and the related FUD are one of the major reasons why Apache takes the "individuals do the work" tack. Quite frankly, if you really intend to share, then moaning when others take you at your word is pretty sad. Better to share with open hands. Or don't. Make up your mind a

Re: Trouble child OpenOffice

2017-04-19 Thread Dave Fisher
Hi Raphael, Not sure why you aren't trying this conversation on the OpenOffice Developer list. It is true there is a lack of c++ devs and QA. We were too dependent on IBM. You had volunteered to do Windows builds, but had other considerations? Regards, Dave Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 19, 2

Re: Contribute as a company

2017-04-19 Thread William Li
Thanks for all your replies. I ran into some blog posts which compared different company contributions, for example like this one: http://readwrite.com/2013/11/14/hadoops-biggest-vendors-may-contribute-least-to-its-development/. I don't know how they ran the counts. That’s the reason why I w

Re: Trouble child OpenOffice

2017-04-19 Thread Andy Wenk
Hi Raphael, this is really sad to hear. The gap between so many users and a vanishing community developers wise is really strange. So the question comes to mind what the reasons are for this situation: * are there problems in the community - especially among the developers? * is OpenOffice not

Trouble child OpenOffice

2017-04-19 Thread Raphael Bircher
Hi people I want to raise a question here. I know, we have to solve our problems our self, but maybe here are people with ideas. OpenOffice has a big community problem. The community was simply melted away in the last year. We have at the moment no Company who offer devs. And the rest of th

Re: Contribute as a company

2017-04-19 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 11:34 PM, William Li wrote: > ...Could any one please tell me how to register contributors under a specific > company name?... You don't - contributors to Apache projects *must* act as themselves, as opposed to representing their company. It's great to have companie

Re: Contribute as a company

2017-04-19 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 09:34:18PM -, William Li wrote: > Hi - I'm new and my company is interested to have developers to contribute to > a couple of apache open source projects. Could any one please tell me how to > register contributors under a specific company name? > > I searched throug