Alternatively, perhaps people are restraining themselves because of behind-the-scenes discussions that haven't finished yet.Įither way, so far the new project is small. Yet the tone on the mailing lists and public statements suggest to me that Apache members are generally non-plussed about the donation, as though it is something they are dutifully accepting rather than anything they're excited about. True, Apache members are methodically going through the motions of setting up the project after all, they've started dozens of projects in the past. The trouble is, I wonder whether the Apache Foundation is really that enthused about its new proposed incubator project. For most people, the division between the two projects has always been more about governance than personal animosities, so coexistence is almost certainly possible.In fact, Apache representatives have suggested repeatedly that nothing would please them better. And, as Allen Pulsifer suggested, perhaps LibreOffice supporters should to join the new to keep track of what it is doing. Not that there's no room for two projects working with the same code. However, since last week, when Oracle donated to the Apache Software Foundation, is looking more and more like the natural heir of the original - by which I mean the project that will do the free software community the most benefit. Many of its founders were members of Go-OO, the sometimes controversial not-quite-fork, so LibreOffice looked like simply a continuation of GO-OO under another name. When LibreOffice first forked from, I was unsure how to respond to it.
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