![]() Overloaded w/ emails from developers and other contributors offering their Jagielski has claimed that " AOO has simply been Plans are forming to try to turn theĬurrent round of publicity into a call for developers to join a To that end, a new recruitment mailing list has been created to What is clear is that AOO needs to bring in more developers if it is Takes when the project has not made a feature release for 2.5 years is not It was said by a few that AOO providesĪn important competition for LibreOffice, though what form that competition AOO's remaining community has aĬlear attachment to the project and a strong lack of desire for any kind Others saw it as " liberating" and as a way to kickstart the Of them clearly think that AOO can be saved and saw Hamilton's message as There are, however, AOO developers who disagree with this assessment. So, to many, it seems clear that AOO is not Hope to fully understand its (large) code base, much less make significant The current AOO development community is too small to even LibreOffice has significant corporate investmentĭriving its development AOO, seemingly, has none since IBM ceased its Releases AOO has been unable to put out even a single emergency LibreOffice makes regular feature and maintenance Has been unable to compete with LibreOffice its commit volume andĭeveloper participation are not just lower, they are two orders of Has an underlying assumption that AOO will, indeed, wind down. The above discussion, like much of the conversation on the net as a whole, Solution that is good for everybody involved. To end the hostilities of past years, enable cooperation, and bring about a The sharing of some conciliatory words could do a lot Their own (they have not been 100% perfect either), perhaps ahead ofĪnything from AOO. LibreOffice developers could even consider making Hope that any such apology, should it be forthcoming, would be taken at its While his tone might be read as being less than fully sincere, one would To top things off, he even said that the project might consider making anĪpology of sorts for the excesses of one of its advocates in the past. To LibreOffice - a suggestion that still seems to be seen as heretical by He suggested that the domain could be redirected Jagielski suggested that, while the project cannot sustain itself as anĮnd-user-focused effort, it may be able to go forward as a framework that ![]() To make things better for developers and users of free office suites, butĭoing so may require forgiving and forgetting quite a bit of unpleasant Point when he said that most of that does not matter what does matter is There has been quite a bit of rehashing of the history of theĪOO project and how the current situation came to be. This conversation has been widely reported the result, unsurprisingly, has Project for some time." Given that, he said, the important thing is " it has become obvious to the board that AOO has not been a healthy Given that, he said, it is time to openly face the prospect that AOO is not Supplement the roughly half-dozen volunteers holding the project It is also my considered opinion that there is no ready supply ofĭevelopers who have the capacity, capability, and will to Limited capacity for sustaining the project in an energetic manner. I have regularly observed that the Apache OpenOffice project has In response, on September 1, Hamilton went to the AOO development list "Retirement" of the project, it seems, has been Monthly (rather than every three months as usual) The board is apparently asking some sharp questions indeed and requiring When the handling of CVE-2016-1513 (or the lack thereof) came to its attention. Seemingly, had asked few questions about the status of AOO until recently, Software Foundation (ASF) board on the project's status. The sustainability of the project for some time (see this message from one year ago, for example),Ī concern sharpened by the routine requirement that he report to the Apache Hamilton, whose term is set to end shortly. The current chair of the AOO project management committee (PMC) is Dennis It will find a way to turn its fortunes around. Internal discussion on whether the project should be "retired," or whether Security fix nearly one year after being notified of the vulnerability. Since then, though, the worries have grown more pronounced,Įspecially after AOO's recent failure to produce a release with an important New they had been in the air for a while by the time LWN looked at the project's development activity Concerns about the viability of the Apache OpenOffice (AOO) project are not
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