StartOffice was German and when LibreOffice was forked, a massive effort was started to translate and update tens of thousands of German comments from the code

StartOffice was German and when LibreOffice was forked, a massive effort was started to translate and update tens of thousands of German comments from the code base so the new developers who do not speak the language can safely navigate and contribute. The effort lasted for years: https://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2015-08-05-under-the-hood-5-0.html https://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2015-08-05-under-the-...