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Re:It's time to let go, Apache Software Foundation by davidgerard on Monday September 25, 2023 @04:25PM (#37650101)
> If you interested in helping then the type of developer needed is someone who understands old C++ and has a passion to modernize that.

Adding myself to AOO as a C++ dev would be counter to the interests of the users - it would add to the impression that this dead project was not dead.

You've got pull requests waiting that go back to 2019. Dave, why aren't you pushing any of those?

If I was interested in helping I'd be steering people away from the dead security hazard to the live project that has developers. And it turns out I already do that.

The most useful way to help AOO users is to shoot AOO through the head and send them to LibreOffice. AOO doesn't appear to have the devs to maintain a user-facing project securely.

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Re:It's time to let go, Apache Software Foundation by SSLy on Monday September 25, 2023 @06:04PM (#37651350)
> The most useful way to help AOO users is to shoot AOO through the head and send them to LibreOffice.

Maybe we could get some bored whitehat to mine some 0days for a few weeks, then send them all at once, wait for inevitable 90 days, and then release high+ severity CVEs.

Purge by fire of a kind.

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