What's next for Apache OpenOffice

Well, your description of LO's handling of bug reports does not match the Gnumeric's developers experience. This is for technical spreadsheet issues -- I have no idea how bugs about other things get handled.

Way too often the lifespan of, say a bug report regarding generation of wrong ods files, is something like this:

1. Report
2. Crickets
3. Auto-generated "is that problem still there?"
4. "Yes"
5. Repeat from 3 until reporter gets tired.
6. Auto-generated close

For accuracy related bug reports, change (2) to a few rounds of "it's floating-point, you don't know what you're talking about".

The above actually isn't specific to LO. I understand that it can be hard to find time to look at all bug reports. What I do not understand is (3): it's basically saying "we haven't had time to look at your report; would you please do some extra work, the result of which we won't look at either". I say "While you're at it, why don't you give me a nice paper cut and pour lemon juice on it? We're closed."

On re-reading, I find I sound too negative. I don't mean to. The point is, with respect to ignoring bug reports I fear that AOO is in the same class as many large and active projects.