ESC meeting minutes: 2024-10-31

[Ilmari Lauhakangas]

On 31.10.2024 20.57, Andreas Mantke wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Am 31.10.24 um 19:07 schrieb Thorsten Behrens:
>> (...)
> 
>> * Feature locking (Andreas)
>>    + <https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/174865> "Remove blocking 
>> functions feature from core"
>>    + re-visit from last week - any new views?
>>    + Heiko: having a 'freemium' label in the code - is not ideal. but 
>> more a question
>>      of labelling stuff, rather than technically wrong. And not 
>> affecting the desktop
>>      version anyway
> 
> feature locking in an api is affecting the whole LibreOffice. And the
> labeling of stuff with Freemium makes it clear that the whole review
> process seemed to be broken, if not at least the ESC stops such commits.
> (And also not even a BoD member regularly participating at the ESC
> meetings raised an issue about that patch).

Preventing users from customising LibreOffice in unified deployments has 
been possible for a long time and this is a similar mechanism. Nobody 
supports your request to revert the patch. Reverting would also mean 
that in principle we should remove all of such feature locking 
functionality implemented previously.

Ilmari