Hi all,
On 08/02/2022 17.01, sophi wrote:
Le 07/02/2022 à 19:16, Paolo Vecchi a écrit :
* Members of the ecosystem and others also suggested that we should
spend more money in development
* Bugs, a11y issues and features can be harder to taken care of by
volunteers and are not always addressed by the ecosystem
* We need to build up internal skills and development capabilities to
speed up innovation
I agree here that there are several areas like CJK and CTL (and not only
for bug fixes) or ally that should deserve much more love from TDF and
I'm sure our donors would be happy that we invest in this area too.
That would help also to grow this part of the community, which is very
complicated to achieve when our version is difficult to use.
That sounds like a good approach to me, in particular for areas where
there's currently no specific interest from ecosystem companies or
volunteers and that are unsuitable for tenders, but considered important
for the community.
I would see that in line with how TDF already employs non-developer
staff to take care of other important aspects not (sufficiently) covered
by other contributors.
I have the impression that a fundamentally important question is what
the purpose/task of TDF-internal developers would be.
If larger topics that TDF-internal developers were to work on were first
agreed on in the bodies where ecosystem companies are present as well
(like ESC and/or the board), my expectation would be that the
development work from different sides should work together nicely,
rather than creating any kind of destructive competition.
(Ecosystem company products profit from contributions made to
LibreOffice as well, and having a better overall product should in my
opinion also increase the range of potentially interested customers in
general.)
Of course, in case the main intention were for TDF to provide more
business-like services (like an LTS version or creating an impression of
"donate a certain amount of money and your pet bug will be fixed"), I
see very well how that might interfere significantly with the business
model of ecosystem companies.
Assuming members in the involved LibreOffice/TDF bodies found a way to
work together constructively, my current impression is that this
approach could be for the benefit of all.
However, I must admit I don't know the ecosystem company perspective
first-hand, so would be interested in learning more about specific concerns.
Best regards,
Michael
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