OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 final released (The H)

Posted Jan 27, 2011 19:14 UTC (Thu) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877)
In reply to: OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 final released (The H) by xtifr
Parent article: OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 final released (The H)

<blockquote>there's no way to tell just from the asterisks, at least as far as I can see</blockquote>

Perhaps. At least one data point is straightforward, though: the 1M row limitation is mentioned as a new feature in OOo 3.3 and not starred in the new feature list in LO 3.3.

OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 final released (The H)

Posted Jan 27, 2011 21:02 UTC (Thu) by Kit (guest, #55925) [Link] (2 responses)

I looked at about 3 - 4 of the highlighted features on the OOo page, and all appeared on the LO page _without_ the asterisks. I'd feel pretty confident in saying that all the ones with an asterisks definitely don't appear in OOo (unless, possibly, they were both implemented independently). It would be pretty easy for the LO people to know what OOo was going to have (many of them having been working on OOo before, as well as knowing what code they imported- and what they wrote themselves).

I think a more interesting question would be how many of the features came post-fork, and how many had been floating around in Go-OO but could never be merged... that would give a fairly decent impression of the progress LO is making.

OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 final released (The H)

Posted Jan 27, 2011 21:07 UTC (Thu) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

even if the patches did exist pre-fork, they still had to get all the new processes setup. so we won't really see the rate of change for a couple of releases.

even if the first release or two are large, part of the question is if this is representing a change in contributions, or just short-term enthusiasm over the break.

OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 final released (The H)

Posted Jan 27, 2011 23:22 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

How many features are in OO that are not in LO?

Probably none. Oracle has a copyright assignment policy, LO does not. That means that LO has been syncing regularly with the OO tree because they can, but OO can't sync with the LO tree because they won't.

How many features are actually *new*?

Probably minimal. The main focus has been on code cleanup, including merging all the patches that Sun/Oracle wouldn't take. If you look at the mailing lists, you'll see a lot of work has gone into reducing bloat, with plenty of "low hanging fruit" of the order of MEGAbytes of dead code being deleted. Just compare the size of the installers, or count the LOC.

Cheers,
Wol