On 07.07.2011 00:41, Simon Phipps wrote: > > On 6 Jul 2011, at 23:19, Rob Weir wrote: > >> I think we're transitioning from a formally coordinated model led >> by a corporation to a model that will have less formal >> coordination structures. This is necessary to grow the project in >> the absence of corporate control. But it will take some time to >> get used to it. > > I've always assumed that the extremely careful approach the > development team was using was more a function of the size, > complexity and intra-dependency of the code than of corporate > control. It is amazing how a small, obvious change in one part of OOo > can result in a nasty intermittent fault in another part... Indeed it was not "corporate control", it was carefulness, though often exaggerated. Call it "overprotection".
Regards, Mathias
