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> 3. Honestly, just who cares? So what if OpenOffice is just being minimally kept alive? The post is about the fact that it is _deceptively_ minimally kept ali

> 3. Honestly, just who cares? So what if OpenOffice is just being minimally kept alive? The post is about the fact that it is _deceptively_ minimally kept alive. A significant part of the decision process involving OSS choice is measuring active maintenance. Surely, these commits exist to give a false impression here, which down the road can harm those using unmaintained software.

SoftTalker 3y ago
How is it deceptive? Are they bumping version numbers? Are they packaging new releases? Edit: before I'm accused of not reading the article, I did, but I did not look at the actual OpenOffice download page. The current release, dated April 2023, includes the following, which seems substantially more than "whitespace cleanup" as TFA author claims, but seems quite in line with software that is being maintained but not actively developed: Other Improvements/Enhancements Writer: Dialog "Frame" in Writer / automatic size / changing shortcut keys (German) Calc: Protect Table – Dialog too narrow for German heading string Base: Dialog text in "Datenbank austauschen" (exchange database) dialog is cut (German) Calc: Use the existing icon for "Remove Filter" in toolbar and menu Calc: Text in cell comments is more readable Calc: Added support for Excel 2010s DateTime type cells. Bug Fixes Calc: Rich text cells imported from XLSX files have their contents duplicated Several fixes for importing OOXML documents All applications: Import fails when the Relationship "Target" attribute in _rels/.rels has superfluous slashes Calc: XLSX with omitted cell references opens with empty cells Calc: no text imported from XSLX when xl/sharedStrings.xml has wrong case Several fixes for importing MS Excel 2003 SpreadsheetML files Calc: ss:DateTime cell value is loaded as either only a date or a time Calc: fractional seconds are silently ignored during import Calc: cell with ss:MergeAcross="0" gets an extra empty cell to the right Calc: import corrupts references to columns that are multiples of 26 (eg. Z) Writer: Importing apostrophes from HTML fails Calc: Cut-and-paste between spreadsheets causes incorrect cell reference changes Writer: Awkward Chinese (ZH-TW) numbering suffix when importing RTF document Calc: Last CSV line is silently lost on import if last field is quoted and end-of-file is reached before closing quote

SoftTalker 3y ago

How is it deceptive? Are they bumping version numbers? Are they packaging new releases? Edit: before I'm accused of not reading the article, I did, but I did not look at the actual OpenOffice download page. The current release, dated April 2023, includes the following, which seems substantially more than "whitespace cleanup" as TFA author claims, but seems quite in line with software that is being maintained but not actively developed: Other Improvements/Enhancements Writer: Dialog "Frame" in Writer / automatic size / changing shortcut keys (German) Calc: Protect Table – Dialog too narrow for German heading string Base: Dialog text in "Datenbank austauschen" (exchange database) dialog is cut (German) Calc: Use the existing icon for "Remove Filter" in toolbar and menu Calc: Text in cell comments is more readable Calc: Added support for Excel 2010s DateTime type cells. Bug Fixes Calc: Rich text cells imported from XLSX files have their contents duplicated Several fixes for importing OOXML documents All applications: Import fails when the Relationship "Target" attribute in _rels/.rels has superfluous slashes Calc: XLSX with omitted cell references opens with empty cells Calc: no text imported from XSLX when xl/sharedStrings.xml has wrong case Several fixes for importing MS Excel 2003 SpreadsheetML files Calc: ss:DateTime cell value is loaded as either only a date or a time Calc: fractional seconds are silently ignored during import Calc: cell with ss:MergeAcross="0" gets an extra empty cell to the right Calc: import corrupts references to columns that are multiples of 26 (eg. Z) Writer: Importing apostrophes from HTML fails Calc: Cut-and-paste between spreadsheets causes incorrect cell reference changes Writer: Awkward Chinese (ZH-TW) numbering suffix when importing RTF document Calc: Last CSV line is silently lost on import if last field is quoted and end-of-file is reached before closing quote