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Just look at LibreOffice. This is a fork of OpenOffice and OpenOffice is dead (at least to me)

colesantiago 3y ago
OpenOffice isn't dead, they made a release a few months ago this year. https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/announcing-apache-openoffice-4-110 https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/announcing-apache-openoff... Last commit made 3 days ago, actively maintained. https://github.com/apache/openoffice https://github.com/apache/openoffice
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- yarg 3y ago
  https://itsfoss.com/libreoffice-vs-openoffice/ https://itsfoss.com/libreoffice-vs-openoffice/ > Technically, both receive regular updates. But, OpenOffice is limited to bug fixes and minor updates. > LibreOffice has more development activity, frequent bug fixes/minor updates, regular major upgrades with newer features, and improved user experience. Apache can do whatever they want here, but the project is limping at best.
- sgt 3y ago
  So you went to github and saw commits made 3 days ago, then concluded that surely that means the project isn't dead. It is though, you're just completely missing the forest for the trees - a typical trait of programmer types.
  - colesantiago 3y ago
    It isn't though until they say it is discontinued. You also missed that OpenOffice made a new release and they were even bothered enough to make a post about it. Hardly a trait of dead software. As much as you would love to say it is dead: It officially isn't and it is still maintained.
- abenga 3y ago
  c. 3 commits per day from one contributor? That's dead, compared to Libreoffice that has dozens per day from multiple contributors.
  - colesantiago 3y ago
    By that logic, projects like the Bohem GC is dead with only one full time maintainer. https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc
    - abenga 3y ago
      If that were a project that needs to change as much as a full office suite, then yeah. It's not so much the absolute numbers as much as the relative numbers when compared with the amount of activity in Libreoffice.
      - colesantiago 3y ago
        A long way to admit you were wrong but ok?
jsiepkes 3y ago
With OpenOffice all the large contributors (IBM, RedHat, etc.) moved to LibreOffice. Only Oracle remained with OpenOffice. So unless CloudFlare, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc. decide to move to the Rust fork these situations are not at all comparable.

OpenOffice isn't dead, they made a release a few months ago this year. https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/announcing-apache-openoffice-4-110 https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/announcing-apache-openoff... Last commit made 3 days ago, actively maintained. https://github.com/apache/openoffice https://github.com/apache/openoffice

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yarg 3y ago
https://itsfoss.com/libreoffice-vs-openoffice/ https://itsfoss.com/libreoffice-vs-openoffice/ > Technically, both receive regular updates. But, OpenOffice is limited to bug fixes and minor updates. > LibreOffice has more development activity, frequent bug fixes/minor updates, regular major upgrades with newer features, and improved user experience. Apache can do whatever they want here, but the project is limping at best.
sgt 3y ago
So you went to github and saw commits made 3 days ago, then concluded that surely that means the project isn't dead. It is though, you're just completely missing the forest for the trees - a typical trait of programmer types.
- colesantiago 3y ago
  It isn't though until they say it is discontinued. You also missed that OpenOffice made a new release and they were even bothered enough to make a post about it. Hardly a trait of dead software. As much as you would love to say it is dead: It officially isn't and it is still maintained.
abenga 3y ago
c. 3 commits per day from one contributor? That's dead, compared to Libreoffice that has dozens per day from multiple contributors.
- colesantiago 3y ago
  By that logic, projects like the Bohem GC is dead with only one full time maintainer. https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc
  - abenga 3y ago
    If that were a project that needs to change as much as a full office suite, then yeah. It's not so much the absolute numbers as much as the relative numbers when compared with the amount of activity in Libreoffice.
    - colesantiago 3y ago
      A long way to admit you were wrong but ok?

jsiepkes 3y ago

With OpenOffice all the large contributors (IBM, RedHat, etc.) moved to LibreOffice. Only Oracle remained with OpenOffice. So unless CloudFlare, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc. decide to move to the Rust fork these situations are not at all comparable.