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    OpenOffice 3.0 released amid fears of development stagnation
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    Meeks calls for Sun to distance itself from the project and establish a new governance model that is totally community-driven. "Kill the ossified, paralyzed and gerrymandered political system in OO.o. Instead put the developers (all of them), and those actively contributing into the driving seat" Meeks urges. "This in turn should help to kill the many horribly demotivating and dysfunctional process steps currently used to stop code from getting included, and should help to attract volunteers." Full Article at Ars Technica
    Kill the ossified, paralyzed and gerrymandered political system in OO.o. Instead put the developers (all of them), and those actively contributing into the driving seat
    SOURCE: Ars Technica 13 months ago
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OpenOffice 3.0 released amid fears of development stagnation
  1. This in turn should help to kill the many horribly demotivating and dysfunctional process steps currently used to stop code from getting included, and should help to attract volunteers.
    SOURCE: Ars Technica 13 months ago
  2. It is clear that the number of active contributors Sun brings to the project is continuing to shrink, which would be fine if this was being made up for by a matched increase in external contributors, sadly that seems not to be so ... Crude as they are—the statistics show a picture of slow disengagement ...
    SOURCE: Ars Technica 13 months ago

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