Doing better than Apache, but is that saying much?

Posted Aug 18, 2015 8:47 UTC (Tue) by vasvir (subscriber, #92389)
In reply to: Doing better than Apache, but is that saying much? by luya
Parent article: Schaller: An Open Letter to Apache Foundation and Apache OpenOffice team

Good to know that. I didn't know that this lineage goes back to Sugar and XO.

Yes I know LO does a terrific job in the existing codebase and I personally enjoy a lot the blog posts of Michael Meeks.

I just feel that collaborative editing is such a killer feature that may move people over and make people ignore import, transition and formatting issues.

I mean not having to sync edits by e-mail is a major win and something I could talk my company doing it given that the data stays with us and they don't go to GDrive,

Doing better than Apache, but is that saying much?

Posted Aug 18, 2015 12:36 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

The internal (inherited) layout of Writer is rubbish. I know :-(

I've been digging at the project to implement something like "reveal codes", as a feature "to kill WordPerfect" - THAT is the feature WP fanatics like me refuse to surrender ... You'd think, with documents now in XML that would be dead simple, as there's a fairly close mapping between reveal-codes and XML. But because of Writer's internal layout, it's an almost total rewrite to get it to work :-(

That said, I believe a lot of the cleanup work going on is going to make this a lot easier :-)

Cheers,
Wol

Doing better than Apache, but is that saying much?

Posted Aug 19, 2015 1:00 UTC (Wed) by luya (subscriber, #50741) [Link]

I just found out LibreOffice Calc allows sharing document under Tools->Share Documents menu. It appears codes for collaboration mode are already in place but are under low priority for Writer.