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Re: KOffice
by Anon on Wednesday 27/Feb/2008, @23:29

(At most one of which are paid - contrast with OO.o's sprawling and horrific codebase, which has about *50 *full-time* programmers working on it).

A really sad mis-allocation of funds if you ask me: if I was rich, I'd definitely be putting money into KOffice rather than OO.o. It's amazing how far the KOffice team have come on a non-existent budget, and a real testament to how good the devs and underlying technologies are.

Keep up the excellent work, KOffice devs! :)

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Re: KOffice
by j on Thursday 28/Feb/2008, @01:52

50? There are about 10 full-time folks in o.org from SUN and who knows how many in Novell (not counting marketing and lawyers ;) ). You can find not that many commiters with 2000+ commits (http://www.ohloh.net/projects/29/contributors). Most of the code still comes from closed source development at StarDivision.

Thanks for the offer and we all are waiting for you when you got rich :)

est. KOffice project cost: $16,478,614 ;)
(http://www.ohloh.net/projects/3802)

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Re: KOffice
by AC on Thursday 28/Feb/2008, @03:59

According to this http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2005/09/opening_the_potential_of_openo.html

it's 1 RedHat, 80 Sun, and 8 Novell developer. So by now it will probably be more than that.

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Re: KOffice
by j on Thursday 28/Feb/2008, @10:57

They most likely count the translation teams and we are not. 100k LOC per dev could mean a lot of code nearly unmaintained too.

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Re: KOffice
by Boudewijn Rempt on Thursday 28/Feb/2008, @13:27

I doubt they count the translation teams either when talking about numbers of developers. About 120 developers for OpenOffice sounds about right to me -- it's what I'd expect for a codebase of that size.

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Re: KOffice
by j on Friday 29/Feb/2008, @00:15

"[120] it's what I'd expect for a codebase of that size."

But much of the code has been provided by StarDivision. The question is about actual # of devs, not history. While oo.org 2.0 alpha/beta stage, the team has been complaining about shortage of manpower.

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Re: KOffice
by richlv on Friday 29/Feb/2008, @03:38

my guess - that includes testing, user experience and whatnot teams as well.

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