ESC meeting minutes: 2024-10-31

[Thorsten Behrens]

Hi Andreas, all,

Andreas Mantke wrote:
> 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.
>
This discussion has run its course, and the ESC (after now the second
consideration) sees no problem whatsoever with the code.

I'd like to conclude the debate here, unless there's new
arguments. The ones you've stated repeatedly are no reason to revert.

> [plone]
>
> They created and constantly improve their api. And I have not seen
> anything about feature locking (or similar) in that software (api)
> yet.  But there is a difference to our community: they have more and
> different sized corporate and also volunteer contributors. They
> don't fork projects away from their community. And the developers
> value the contributors in non-code parts (e.g. documentation,
> marketing ...) of their project too.
>
The implied accusations (that the LibreOffice project would do none of
the above) seem to be either borne out of ignorance (then please
educate yourself!), or meant to distort reality. Please stop what
you're implying regardless, since the project I'm contributing to, is:

 * constantly improving its API
 * has corporate contributors of all sizes
 * and greatly values non-code contributions (to the point that every
   TDF trustee has exactly the same weight: one person, one vote).

Cheers,

-- Thorsten
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