mercredi, avril 08, 2009

Google SoC again ...

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OpenOffice.org does not belong to the list this year again.

One told me someone from OOo was in charge of that, but after I asked one trusted people from Google, looks like OpenOffice.org did not apply.

I know Alexandro Colorado applied though, but I don't know what happened. (any further information welcome)

Now, if you click on "Projects by year" on the following link, you have the full story. Nothing in 2008, nothing in 2009.

I was mentor twice already, and anyway, I got a little chance to be one more time (FYI, there are other devs than Sun or other companies devs contributing to Ooo) . But this time will not be for OpenOffice.org Project directly. After I asked a trusted people from Google, it does appear OpenOffice.org Project did not apply. So it appears this is mostly the fault of OpenOffice.org Project (but I still do not understand what happened with Alexandro request).

So, what is the point ? Some times ago, I blogged *a lot* about sane ways to find new developers. One of them, the Education Project is searching to attract new devs, and has results. The Google Summer of Code is another one, ... and so on ... like the FOSDEM is another one too.

But I'm not discouraged, and I'll soon publish where we are with students projects.

Working on that, and more ...

Stay tuned ;-)

Update: After some private search, it appears that OpenOffice.org, applied seriously one time, even probably twice (I'm sure Alexandro did). So the problem is very probably Google. Something like -sort of- a private bash between Google and Sun. In short, it is impossible to know the exact reason, and the official -politicaly correct- version is "all projects cannot be selected"

:-/

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mardi, février 10, 2009

About the number of developers contributing to OpenOffice.org (again)

Back from FOSDEM (I'll write a word asap about it), I tried to see what happened in meantime, mainly what was committed in OOo tree.

If you remember my previous blog entry ( see this link ), I wrote it was very easy to retrieve the most recent information, and have the number of people who commited code in some cws, for OpenOffice.org Project.

The magic link was: CIA.vc server

Now it is no longer possible, because the stack of the recent commiters, including the sum, disappeared.

I ignore what happened, and who did that, but that's clearly a big regression for me, and yet another hidden information, who should be publicaly available.

Indeed, we now are in the situation where we:

- just see the (20 ?) most recent commits, nothing else
- have no idea on the number of contributors since we use svn
- cannot extract the exact content of a commit, and who did what in a cws (at least this is not as easy as it was using Bonsai, where we could even watch everything online).

I have contacted the owner of CIA.vc. Maybe he will explain me some tip, or how to proceed, to retrieve the values, and maybe more.

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