Hello, In my very humble opinion, OpenOffice.org is not a truly open. Main coders is a team working in German and they work locally. Language is not the problem but IMO this is what they want to do.
OOo is a very big project( 9.8 MLOC) and it is quite hard to add a new feature, or fix a bug. If a local team( or a contributor) shows a bug and tags it WORK_FOR_ME( a stopper), chances are they get fixed with very low probability. Due to the big size, new comers will find it very hard to get started with OOo. The main reason, IMO( again) is that, core coders of the OOo project is not willing to share the knowledge. In my case, I am trying to submit some bugs to OOo qa. Most of them are still there, marked as "NEW" and a questions pops up in in mind: How OOo treats contributors? How QA works in OOo? The openness is heart of the Open Source developement model, an open file format and an open source csv are not enough. # Will be there another fork()? I am sure there will be. On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Vikram Gaur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > What i found from openoffice.org site that group working behind is > concentrated in one part of world. They are not willing to come out of > that. We have tried to contact so many time regarding adding ourself in > directory for service provider/consultant/training provider for > openoffice.org but response is zero. > > Vikram >> Hi Andre, >> >> >> Just a question : what does mean Developer for you exactly ? >> >> Looking at your map, I didn't found too much of people who commited >> anything, and I seriously doubt this is a correct description of the >> OpenOffice.org developers, but maybe I misunderstood the sense of the >> word ... >> >> For me developers are the one who fix bugs, add new features .. >> >> >> >> Regards, >> Eric Bachard >> >> >> Le 30 oct. 08 à 12:57, André Schnabel a écrit : >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Zaheda Bhorat schrieb: >>>> >>>> :-( We have only six community entries so far in our attempt to >>>> create an OpenOffice.org community map. None of the entries >>>> include developers. Our goal was to get off to a great start to >>>> this project with many entries in time for OOoCon 2008 in Beijing >>>> next week. >>> >>> Sometimes it might be better to use the resources that are already >>> there instead of creating new ones: >>> >>> http://www.frappr.com/ooodev/map >>> >>> This has many of our developers and contributors.SOmewith short >>> statements what they do here in the project. (Unfortunately most of >>> the recent entries are spam) >>> >>> The curious thing about communities is that they grow where they >>> like - and not when and where we like them to grow. >>> >>> André >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> >> >> -- >> qɔᴉɹə >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Regards, > > Vikram Gaur > IIRA Technologies > +91-9871390284 > > > ================================================= > " Linux is ready for Mission Critical Computing" > "Open Source & Linux gives efficiency, Freedom and Lower Total Cost of > Ownership(TCO)" > > We at IIRA are committed to help you to attain efficiency, freedom and > Lower TCO. > We at IIRA are committed to help you to adopt Open Source and Linux in all > your regular and mission critical operations. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Best Regards, Nguyen Hung Vu ( Nguyễn Vũ Hưng ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] , YIM: vuhung16 , Skype: vuhung16dg A brief profile: http://www.hn.is.uec.ac.jp/~vuhung/Nguyen.Vu.Hung.html
