Development activity in LibreOffice and OpenOffice

Posted Mar 26, 2015 14:46 UTC (Thu) by ssam (guest, #46587)
In reply to: Development activity in LibreOffice and OpenOffice by amacater
Parent article: Development activity in LibreOffice and OpenOffice

Assuming all AOO patches are original (i.e. not replicating changes in LO) and that LO takes them all, it would account for about 2% of the activity in LO. So the flow of work from AOO to LO is pretty small.

Anyway AOO specifically chose a licences so that other people can take their code without giving back.

Development activity in LibreOffice and OpenOffice

Posted Mar 26, 2015 18:34 UTC (Thu) by mjw (subscriber, #16740) [Link] (2 responses)

LibreOffice keeps an aoo branch in their git tree for easy cherry picking. They review each commit and add notes to indicate why a commit is or isn't relevant: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/log/?h=aoo/t...

Development activity in LibreOffice and OpenOffice

Posted Apr 2, 2015 9:10 UTC (Thu) by moltonel (guest, #45207) [Link] (1 responses)

Out of curiosity, greping through that first page (50 commits):
* 28% of commits get merged as-is
* 42% get done differently (hard to say wether LO patches were inspired by the AOO patches or not)
* 30% get rejected/ignored.

Development activity in LibreOffice and OpenOffice

Posted Apr 2, 2015 15:17 UTC (Thu) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link]

> 42% get done differently (hard to say wether LO patches were inspired by the AOO patches or not)

If you're talking about the "prefer: <commit>" ones, take a look at the referenced commit. Almost always that commit is earlier (and often much earlier) than the AOO commit.

For instance, taking a look at a recent AOO commit from 7 days ago, "Huge update to the FreeBSD port", which the LO developers marked with "prefer: <commit>". The referenced LO commit, "Use linux bridge code on all BSDs", is from 2010-11-05.

Another AOO commit from 7 days ago, "Re-implement Calc's RAND() function using a variant of KISS PRNG", also marked with "prefer: <commit>". The corresponding LO commit is from 2014-10-03, "use comphelper::rng::uniform_*_distribution everywhere", and the commit message tells it was on response to a series of Coverity reports.

And so on.