Examples of external contributions lost for OpenOffice.org
Approximatively one year ago, I worked on 3D transitions in Impress implementation, for Mac OSX (work was started by Stephan Schaefer)Since, I never received any help, nor sign of interest from the - so called - "Community".
And today, I saw there is an issue open ( see Issue 105023 ), asking for seach feature (not exactly the same;, but I'd say similar. From my side, this is too late, really : I simply gave up with the idea to fight QA and other horrors to integrate that in OpenOffice.org.
More, all this time and energy lost lead me to think : how are external OpenOffice.org contributions, means "not Corporate interest", considered in the project at the end ?
Nevertheless, this work will not be lost for all : it is LGPL, and I'll integrate it in OOo4Kids. I even have some new ideas ... stay tuned ;-)
References :
* Open GL 3D transitions in Impress
* Blog entries about the work in progress
Libellés : disaster, High Tech, lost contributions, OOo4Kids, OpenGL, OpenOffice
publié par ericb @ dimanche, septembre 13, 2009
