Hmm, as far as I know the biggest problem of OpenOffice had been licensing. ASFAIK LibreOffice's success is a different license which allows to incorporate more sources.
I'm not a licensing specialist. I hope, wie wohnt geht problems. -- Herzliche Grüße, Best regards Michael Müller Twitter: @muellermi Blog: blog.mueller-bruehl.de Web Development with Java and JSF: leanpub.com/jsf Java Lambdas and Parallel Streams: leanpub.com/lambdas Am 19. September 2016 14:52:16 MESZ, schrieb Geertjan Wielenga <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com>: >On 19.09.2016 1:10, Raphael Bircher wrote: > >> My biggest fear ist the community. As I saw on the NetBeans ML, the >> decision to join the ASF was made by Oracle. Well a load of the >> community members welcome this step, but there are also fears. This >> fears has to be addressed, this is very very important. > > >You are right. There are mixed feelings about this move. However, by >far >the majority are strongly in favor. Yesterday at JavaOne, we discussed >this >move at length in a number of sessions and James Gosling, the most >respected individual contributor on the initial committers list (who >sent >his ICL the second he was invited to join the project, i.e., even >before >the proposal was submitted) said he is "unspeakably thrilled" about >NetBeans in the context of Apache. > >Indeed, there are going to be people who are negative about this. Some >have >said that Apache is a "burial ground". I disagree with that and I think >that is nonsense. However, just because one or two people say that does >not >mean I think any differently about Apache. > >Thanks, > >Geertjan > >On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Raphael Bircher ><rbircherapa...@gmail.com> >wrote: > >> Hi Geertjan >> >> I'm registred at NetBeams now, to get a closer look at the project. I >> was a bit shocked about the similarities with the formar >> OpenOffice.org project. The structure of the Project, the workflow >> etc. are so close to the OpenOffice.org project, much closer as I >> expected. My biggest fear for the incubation is not the technical >> aspect. For infrastructure we will find solutions, and for many >> problems exist already blueprints from the OpenOffice Project. My >> biggest fear ist the community. As I saw on the NetBeans ML, the >> decision to join the ASF was made by Oracle. Well a load of the >> community members welcome this step, but there are also fears. This >> fears has to be addressed, this is very very important. >> >> One Mail also complained about the Initial Committer list. Are all >> active committers who did commit in the last 6 month (or so) on the >> initial committer list. forgotten people can create bad blood and >> disappointment. The committers are the most value part of a project. >> >> This are at the moment my biggest concerns. >> >> Regards Raphael >> >> On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Geertjan Wielenga >> <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> > Nightly builds is all that's needed, indeed, no one needs to >announce >> them, >> > they should simply be available. Agreed it's important to >distinguish >> > between nightly builds and official releases, that's exactly how >NetBeans >> > works currently. The #1 requirement here is that there should be >nightly >> > builds and that is supported, from your response here. >> > >> > Geertjan >> > >> > On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz < >> > bdelacre...@apache.org> wrote: >> > >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 7:00 AM, Geertjan Wielenga >> >> <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> > ...the #1 requirement is for Apache NetBeans to be able >> >> > to produce daily/release builds and to upload them to >netbeans.org or >> >> > another download area under Apache.... >> >> >> >> Daily releases are problematic in Apache projects as the PMC needs >to >> >> approve releases, and in general those votes last at least 72 >hours >> >> due to our async collaboration model. >> >> >> >> AFAIK Apache Cordova for example is making very frequent releases, >it >> >> might be interesting to find out how they enable that, in due >time. >> >> >> >> Nightly builds should not be announced outside of the project's >> >> developers mailing lists, to mark a clear line between those and >> >> official releases. >> >> >> >> All those things can be discussed during incubation of course, >just >> >> wanted to mention them due to the above #1 requirement. >> >> >> >> -Bertrand >> >> >> >> >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> >>
