> -----Original Message----- > From: Raphael Bircher [mailto:rbircherapa...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 21:36 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Community building: give our User a chance to contribute! > > Am .01.2017, 05:31 Uhr, schrieb Dennis E. Hamilton <orc...@apache.org>: > [ ... ] > > I personaly don't believe in that model for Apache OpenOffice. There is > no > need for a customized version of Apache OpenOffice. And the people who > fork, do it normaly to have there own product. They don't want to > upstream. But Yes, it is one model, who exist within ASF. Not that I'm > completely against this way... If someone finds a way, to generate money > to contribute back, it would be nice. But I don't think it's the right > way. > > I'm more with the payed feature model [orcmid]
That was also discussed - creation of an external organization that would arrange paid features and contribute to Apache OpenOffice. That must be external to ASF. And either (1) there are AOO committers who participate in both or (2) AOO committer and PMC must accept the changes and the AOO project incorporates features in AOO releases. So the feature organization would need to be able to do everything but make distributions to provide tested, quality features. Or have AOO committers in the feature organization to work on feature branches of AOO SVN. In all cases, there must be *no* payment process or fund-raising process that involves the ASF. That is key requirement #1. I see that Bertrand Delacretaz has provided a good answer about this on d...@community.apache.org. AND The greatest barrier of all is key requirement #2: finding already-capable OpenOffice developers who have the capacity and willingness to do such work. The fees that an OpenOffice features organization would pay must be enough. Someone with the required at-hand skills can already earn $100,000 per year and more (in US), with all benefits available where they work. I do not know comparable salaries in EU. I believe it is still expensive in terms of how much money feature-organization must raise. Also, providing contract agreements for performance of feature delivery is also complicated. There is a great misunderstanding in the user community of how much feature development costs using developers with professional, at-hand skills. - Dennis > > > > > We can dig up that conversation if you like. > I would be interested, where the discussion ends ;-) > > Regards Raphael > -- > Mein Blog: https://raphaelbircher.blogspot.ch > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
