It's time to let go, Apache Software Foundation

Re:It's time to let go, Apache Software Foundation by alright2565 on Monday September 25, 2023 @01:14PM (#37647305)

Are there so few bugs and issues in OpenOffice that, for months, the most pressing matter is to fix the incorrect use of "its" in comments?

I mean this person is German (their Github bio). Even if they're not a programmer, why don't they instead take the time to translate some of the many german source files to english, like Libreoffice did back in 2013[1]?

[1]: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2013/02/07/the-docu...

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Re:It's time to let go, Apache Software Foundation by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday September 25, 2023 @01:25PM (#37647470)

Unless they're being paid to, the obvious answer is "this is what they felt like working on"

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Re:It's time to let go, Apache Software Foundation by foldr on Monday September 25, 2023 @01:39PM (#37647692)

Everyone knows that Apache's OpenOffice is barely maintained. That's not a reason to attribute nefarious motives to this person's commits. This whole thread is going a bit bonkers making unfounded accusations about this particular individual.

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Re:It's time to let go, Apache Software Foundation by alright2565 on Monday September 25, 2023 @02:35PM (#37648506)

I'm sorry, I missed the important context here.

Yeah I don't think anyone is doing anything nefarious here, and I definitely don't want to accuse anyone of acting in that way. I have my own weird hobbies.

I still don't think it's in the project's interest to have these changes merged in, they just confuse the history & make it harder to track down relevant context.

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