orangeli wrote:That Hamilton dude is such an A$$h01e.
I despise apache software foundation.
floris v wrote:
How ironic. You are, I suppose, aware that most web servers run Apache software, so that you can post this here enabled by Apache software, right?
Hagar Delest wrote:its ability to deliver a secure software when needed (this is the root cause).
Hagar Delest wrote:I also find that there is very poor communication from the project to the users.
Hagar Delest wrote:There is no clear direction. If there are still commits, to they relate to new features? Bug fixes?
Hagar Delest wrote:For the security issue, I just skimmed the messages on the dev list but I can't find any information given to users: are there instructions given? Are all platforms impacted?
Hagar Delest wrote:...
I also find that there is very poor communication from the project to the users. ...
acknak wrote:On top of that, actually contributing to the product has huge barriers; I wonder how many people find OO fun to work on. At least the LibO people seem to be having fun. Well, we have fun here, too, for the most part.
Hagar Delest wrote:Donations are not easy IIRC because it would go to the ASF and they cannot redirect it to a dedicated project.
Code contributions would be the best of course.
The changes may be there now but what I understood is that it took too long to deliver them.
Hagar Delest wrote:Please, this is not a troll about what devs do.
The problem is not with the devs, it's more with the lack of them. I say lack of them because the security question triggers a warning so I guess there was not enough manpower to get the fix in due time.
however, the root cause may be elsewhere. ASF way? PMC management? Other?
The lack of communication/marketing let the outer spheres believe that the project was in limbo (idea well fueled by dedicated people in parallel also). We should learn from that "crisis" and give a signal to the users to say we are still there and we have a vision, which is... something to be agreed on, and the project commits to pursue this vision.
I'm not a committer, but would like to contribute, what should I do?
Apache OpenOffice welcomes your contributions!
To contribute to the OpenOffice product, you will need to submit subversion patches ("diff" files), and attach them to issues in our issues reporting system, Bugzilla.
Your contributions will be recognized by the committer submitting the PATCH in the log entry for the committed patch, and you will be added to the OpenOffice credits page to recognize your contribution.
The following sections will explain more about this.
domesticatedzebra wrote:(...) Which leads to an interesting paradox. In order to contribute code, you need to be a member of a closed community of contributors.
If your project does not allow anyone with the necessary technical skills to contribute code, you are not open source. Period.
floris v wrote:domesticatedzebra wrote:(...) Which leads to an interesting paradox. In order to contribute code, you need to be a member of a closed community of contributors.
If your project does not allow anyone with the necessary technical skills to contribute code, you are not open source. Period.
Open source doesn't mean that anyone can contribute code. Then it would be wiki source.It simply means that the source code is public and can be viewed by anyone. It certainly doesn't mean that anyone can make sense of it, by the way, but that's another story.
In order to test its reliability, Nature conducted a peer review of scientific entries on Wikipedia and the well-established Encyclopedia Britannica.
The reviewers were asked to check for errors, but were not told about the source of the information.
"Only eight serious errors, such as misinterpretations of important concepts, were detected in the pairs of articles reviewed, four from each encyclopedia," reported Nature.
domesticatedzebra wrote:Come on, you probably know Wikipedia is as accurate as Encyclopedia Britannica:
Jack Wallen at techrepublic.com on September 14, 2016 wrote:The end of OpenOffice will be a good thing for open source and for users.
Let me explain.
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