OpenOffice at the crossroads (The H)
OpenOffice at the crossroads (The H)
The H has posted a
discussion with Michael Meeks on the future of OpenOffice.org.
"The problem is we're not starting from square one. OO.o has quality
issues, maybe fewer than we did have, which is encouraging, but they're
certainly there. And in consequence if you slow down changes you may
improve quality, but from what base? Interestingly, the Linux kernel
quality metric is improving and yet the rate of change is accelerating, so
there are other ways to work. Maybe you have to go down hill a bit before
you can find a better way up, so its possible if we relax QA just a bit, we
make things worse, but if we increase the number of commits very radically
we move to a different place in the graph, and bugs get traced and fixed
much more quickly.
"