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Jonathan Corbet

For morbid reasons of my own I keep an eye on the Apache OpenOffice project's regular reports to the ASF board:

https://whimsy.apache.org/board/minutes/OpenOffice.html

As is normal, the September report says that all is great with the project - community health is always "improving". And they are clearly on top of upcoming problems: "Python 2 is unmaintained. We have in the development tree the external python3 support. Internal python 3 support is difficult. We are checking alternatives." They plan to fix it in "the next major release". The project hasn't made a major release in ten years, so I wouldn't hold my breath...

(OK, so I'm still clearly in a snarky mode, sorry.)
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krans@mastodon.me.uk

Peter Brett

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@corbet I feel that, at this point, Apache OpenOffice deserves a heck of a lot of snarkiness

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patrislav@chaos.social

patrislav #RIPNatenom

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@corbet GIMP is also still using Python 2 for scripting đŸ˜•
At least they are fixing it in GIMP 3, whenever it’s eventually released…

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idiot@mastodonapp.uk

you're all idiots

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@corbet zero updates on supporting 3-year-old odf 1.3..

Best thing that can do is hand over the name.

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keen456@infosec.exchange

Steve Zakulec

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@corbet Whoa - deeply surprised it's still around. Kinda wonder why they keep it around, and if there are any paid devs, who's paying & why.

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jameshubbard@twit.social

James Hubbard

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@corbet is someone getting paid to work on it? It seems kinda wild that someone is doing unpaid labor for a project that appears to be going nowhere. Stranger things have happened though.

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diffrentcolours@tech.lgbt

Attractive Nuisance

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@corbet Nice to know that they're planning on supporting OpenDocument 1.3 soon! 1.4 has only been out for six months...

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alerque@mastodon.social

Caleb Maclennan

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@corbet Don't worry about still shipping only with Python 2 and legacy OpenSSL, all is good on the social media front:

> Work is underway to invite more volunteers.

It's like they didn't notice is a thing. That's some hard core denialism.

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