Hi :) Some people do work in both projects. Even if that is becoming increasingly difficult for devs to do there are a lot of other teams and a lot of other work which can be shared with only minor modifications. Regards from Tom :)
>________________________________ > From: Mirosław Zalewski <mini...@poczta.onet.pl> >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Wednesday, 21 November 2012, 10:11 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: OpenOffice to be dumped in Freiburg ? > >On 21/11/2012 at 03:13, rost52 <bugquestcon...@online.de> wrote: > >> Both aspects together is a chance for LibO and AOO. I am looking forward to >> the announcement that both teams tie up, slow down the development of new >> features and substantially reduce the bugs. > >This is very unlikely. > >There are many political differences between both teams (check these two blogs: >http://www.italovignoli.org/ >http://www.robweir.com/blog/ ) that will not simply go away. Wounded pride is >not the best adviser. > >Technical difference between both suites deepen. In LO 4.0.0 (scheduled for >February 2013) they decided to break API backward compatibility. AOO 4.0 >(scheduled for first half of 2013, I believe) is said to have completely new >UI, incorporated from IBM Lotus Symphony. > >There are also licensing differences. > >All sum up, contributing code to both LO and AOO is getting harder and harder. >Both suites finally part ways and they probably will never unite again. > >As I read LO new features announcements, I see that most of these are made >with MSO compatibility in mind. Saying "LO devs should stop developing new >features" sounds like "LO devs should stop caring about MSO compatibility", >which is contrary to many users expectations. >-- >Best regards >Mirosław Zalewski > >-- >For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
