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Re:Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice by ISV_Damocles on Friday September 02, 2016 @05:33PM (#12416435)
What community? The only community around OpenOffice.org were the Sun/Oracle devs + the Go-OO devs getting it to work on Linux.

The Go-OO devs forked it into LibreOffice and then Oracle shuttered their own work and reassigned their devs to other projects. Only a tiny handful of devs not part of Go-OO remained, and they had not been instrumental in actually maintaining the codebase as these other two groups had.

There was no community around Apache OpenOffice.

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Re:Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice by rectang on Friday September 02, 2016 @05:54PM (#12416561)
There were enough people on the "Initial Committers" list here to persuade the Apache Incubator PMC to adopt the project: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal

Subsequently, there were enough people to vet and prepare multiple releases over the next couple years after that.

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Re:Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice by davidgerard on Friday September 02, 2016 @06:31PM (#12416737)
In fact, Oracle didn't even have many committers on OOo at the time - they'd reassigned most of the StarDivision devs to the abortive CloudOffice. At the time of the fork, LO had more dev resources on the codebase than Oracle did.
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