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Almost all of those commits (for years) are one-liner patches to documentation and/or spellcheck dictionaries. Do not mistake activity for development. The en

Almost all of those commits (for years) are one-liner patches to documentation and/or spellcheck dictionaries. Do not mistake activity for development. The entire objective of the current Openoffice developers is convincing people that the project is still alive. The only new feature development happens when someone backports something from Libreoffice (which is getting more difficult as Openoffice falls further behind) or panicked development to fix the onslaught of CVEs. It's been over year since the last release, because there is no release manager. 4.2.0 was scheduled for "2024" and they have about two days left to hit that target. They published the dev preview for this version in 2019. They still don't support Apple Silicon nor do they yet have a build for 64-bit Windows. If you bring your concerns to the developers mailing list, they call you a sock puppet and return to fiddling with localization files. The localization is supposedly the main blocker for the 4.2.0 release but they're not even sure if it's done. Just use Libreoffice.

ryao 2y ago
I checked the published CVEs. Not only am I unable to find any proof of your security flaw remark (at least upon inspecting CVEs from the past two years), but you just contradicted yourself on both claims you made earlier by acknowledging that the Open Office developers are fixing flaws found in their software. This lobbying is having the opposite effect of what you intend, since the more I see it, the more my opinion of LibreOffice sinks.
- stonogo 2y ago
  I will not lose any sleep over failing to convince you. The information is there for all to see, which was my original intent. You can continue to use Openoffice to your heart's content; it makes no difference to me. As for 'contradicting myself,' I did not. Unfixed security flaws exist in the code base, the project used to address them, and now no longer does. I also urge onlookers to investigate how Openoffice handles CVEs: the Apache foundation is a CVE Numbering Authority, they only issue CVEs after a release contains fixes, and they falsely claim to be the only CNA who can issue CVEs for Apache software projects. So, for the rest of the world, you don't get to find out about the flaws until the project gets around to fixing them, which is a wait increasing by the day.
  - ryao 2y ago
    I am a Google Docs user. I cited Open Office writer to make a price comparison since it is a more traditional word processor. You went on a tirade because I cited Open Office's word processor as an example of a free word processor instead of your favorite word processor. If you want to make damaging claims about a project to promote a competing project, you should have solid evidence first. Otherwise, it is just a smear campaign and hurts the project you recommend. It certainly has damaged LibreOffice in my eyes.
    - stonogo 2y ago
      I didn't realize this was just an overreaction to someone failing to agree with you on the internet. This thread makes a lot more sense to me now. It doesn't change the facts, which I have presented and which I stand by.
      - ryao 2y ago
        Now this is projection. You have been spouting nonsense ever since I cited a word processor you did not like when talking about how the cost of word processors has dropped to 0. Being "triggered" by seeing someone not cite your favorite word processor is the height of absurdity, and you are doing no favors for the LibreOffice project by behaving like this.

ryao 2y ago

I checked the published CVEs. Not only am I unable to find any proof of your security flaw remark (at least upon inspecting CVEs from the past two years), but you just contradicted yourself on both claims you made earlier by acknowledging that the Open Office developers are fixing flaws found in their software. This lobbying is having the opposite effect of what you intend, since the more I see it, the more my opinion of LibreOffice sinks.

stonogo 2y ago
I will not lose any sleep over failing to convince you. The information is there for all to see, which was my original intent. You can continue to use Openoffice to your heart's content; it makes no difference to me. As for 'contradicting myself,' I did not. Unfixed security flaws exist in the code base, the project used to address them, and now no longer does. I also urge onlookers to investigate how Openoffice handles CVEs: the Apache foundation is a CVE Numbering Authority, they only issue CVEs after a release contains fixes, and they falsely claim to be the only CNA who can issue CVEs for Apache software projects. So, for the rest of the world, you don't get to find out about the flaws until the project gets around to fixing them, which is a wait increasing by the day.
- ryao 2y ago
  I am a Google Docs user. I cited Open Office writer to make a price comparison since it is a more traditional word processor. You went on a tirade because I cited Open Office's word processor as an example of a free word processor instead of your favorite word processor. If you want to make damaging claims about a project to promote a competing project, you should have solid evidence first. Otherwise, it is just a smear campaign and hurts the project you recommend. It certainly has damaged LibreOffice in my eyes.
  - stonogo 2y ago
    I didn't realize this was just an overreaction to someone failing to agree with you on the internet. This thread makes a lot more sense to me now. It doesn't change the facts, which I have presented and which I stand by.
    - ryao 2y ago
      Now this is projection. You have been spouting nonsense ever since I cited a word processor you did not like when talking about how the cost of word processors has dropped to 0. Being "triggered" by seeing someone not cite your favorite word processor is the height of absurdity, and you are doing no favors for the LibreOffice project by behaving like this.