▲ 164 ▼ It's time to let go, Apache Software Foundation (rocket9labs.com) submitted 2 years ago by TheCee@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev 29 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 43 points 2 years ago (1 child) Fully expected a clickbait article, was pleasantly proven wrong. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] e0qdk@kbin.social 24 points 2 years ago Adding a summary to this: the article has some history about OpenOffice (which is a zombie project that was essentially replaced by LibreOffice after Oracle bought Sun) followed by a description of patterns of weird commit history recently (e.g. regular changes that are entirely or almost entirely just fiddling with whitespace), and a request to email the Apache foundation to ask them to make it clear that the project is dead. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] e0qdk@kbin.social 24 points 2 years ago Adding a summary to this: the article has some history about OpenOffice (which is a zombie project that was essentially replaced by LibreOffice after Oracle bought Sun) followed by a description of patterns of weird commit history recently (e.g. regular changes that are entirely or almost entirely just fiddling with whitespace), and a request to email the Apache foundation to ask them to make it clear that the project is dead. permalink fedilink source parent