Quoting Joerg Barfurth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
On Mer 20 avril 2005 11:04, Philipp Lohmann - Sun Germany a écrit :
Face it: the patch acceptance is not that bad, It's just there are not
many patches.
Quoting (from memory) a developper on a Linux list (answering why a
feature had reverted to a suboptimal state after being fixed during a few
months)
"I fixed this when working on foo problems last year and it was accepted
in the Ximian branch, but not the Sun one. After spending a year rebasing
the patch for all releases I've decided to drop it and work on bar
instead."
There certainly were some problems, but many of the causes are known and
are being worked on.
One issue with patches that appeared on the Ximian branch but not on OOo
was a disagreement about what may or may not be put onto a released,
stable branch.
The OpenOffice.org project is rather restrictive about what is accepted
on stable branches. Basically only bug fixes, not features are accepted
there. And even for bug fixes the risk is weighed against the benefit.
Few, if any, UI changes are accepted, because that would mean
documentation and localization would have to be respun as well.
Incompatible changes that break (internal) interfaces are not accepted
there. There are several reasons for those policies.
Ximian was eager to move forward with new features. They maintain a OOo
1.1.x stable + new features version. So they more readily accept feature
and UI patches against that branch. They even backported several
features created on the development branch by Sun to the 1.1.x codeline.
Additionally they appear to care less about binary compatibility (only
caring to be compatible within one release of their distro). They are
focusing on Linux exclusively, so they can accept patches that work only
for Linux or Unix.
[snip]
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