LibreOffice 3.5 released

Posted Feb 15, 2012 21:23 UTC (Wed) by Zizzle (guest, #67739)
Parent article: LibreOffice 3.5 released

Inspired by the disparaging comments of Rob Weir (such as http://lwn.net/Articles/450900/ ) and the good vibes about the project from Michael Meeks's blog, I finally put my money where my mouth is and managed to get a patch into this release.

It made the features page, not trying to toot my own horn, that's not the purpose of this post.

I just wanted to say that getting the patch included was very easy, and the team very helpful.

It was very rewarding.

So I encourage you to get a build going and check out the Easy Hacks page.

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks

Despite Rob's remarks, I think the clean up efforts are very valuable and will only accelerate the project.

I'm glad to have contributed a copyleft patch to help LibreOffice stay out of the hands of sharks looking to coopt it into their proprietary suites.

LibreOffice 3.5 released

Posted Feb 16, 2012 9:42 UTC (Thu) by dag- (guest, #30207) [Link]

My experiences with the development team are also very positive. I do some work around automation and conversion, and interface with LibreOffice for this. The recent releases are quite stable, import and export filters matured and as a whole it responds a lot faster.

Obviously, there are various things that can be improved more and various bugs have not been squashed yet, but the achievement of the LibreOffice project (and the Document Foundation in general) is that progress is happening, it happens at a fast pace, and anyone can help make it go faster.

Since I am not a C++ developer myself, I am bound to discussions with developers and reporting bugs. And even that is quite rewarding since new releases happen on a monthly basis, there is a fast turn-around time to reporting a bug and it potentially hitting the next release.

Good work to everyone involved !