Together a community with over 250 active developers. In the 4½ years since its founding, the LibreOffice project has put
That there is an issue that goes beyond marketing hype here. There can be noĭoubt that the war of words between these two projects has gotten tiresomeĪt times, but, looking at the above numbers, it is hard not to conclude Result of a marketing effort by the LibreOffice crowd. The OpenOffice list about the health of that project's community. Last October, some concerns were raised on It is worth noting that the LibreOffice developers with unknownĪffiliation, who contributed 23% of the changes, make up 82% of theĭeveloper base, so there would appear to be a substantial community ofĭevelopers contributing from outside the above-listed companies. To a first approximation, the top ten companies supporting LibreOffice in the lastĬompanies supporting LibreOffice developmentĭevelopment work on LibreOffice is thus concentrated in a small number ofĬompanies, though it is rather more spread out than OpenOfficeĭevelopment. The most active of these developers were: One-year period, the project has committed 22,134 changesets from 268ĭevelopers. The picture for LibreOffice is just a little bit different in the same IBM is responsible for a minimum of about 60% of the changes to OpenOffice The top four developers in the "by changesets" column all work for IBM, so Those changes, which were mostly updates to translation files. Those developers changed 528,000 lines ofĬode, but, as can be seen above, Jürgen Schmidt accounted for the bulk of it is all of them a total of 16 developers have committed changes to In truth, the above list is not just the most active OpenOffice developers In the one-year period since late March 2014, there have been 381Ĭhangesets committed to the OpenOffice Subversion repository. Two major releases in the last year as well. Most of the releases are of the minor, bug-fix variety, but there have been Project typically keeps at least two major versions alive at any one time. Release cadence, generally putting out at least one release per month. It seems clear that LibreOffice has maintained a rather more frenetic The release history for LibreOffice tells a slightly different story: Significantly improved accessibility support. The main feature added during that time would appear to be (described as "a micro update" in the release announcement) inĪugust. Out, but that does not mean that the two projects are equally successful.Ī look at the two projects' development communities reveals someĪpache OpenOffice has made two releases in the past year: 4.1 Predictions that one project or the other would fail have not been borne It is fair to say that the rivalryīetween the two projects in the time since then has been strong. Project (from which LibreOffice was forked) wasįound a new home as an Apache project. The LibreOffice project was announced with
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