Its been a while since I last volunteered contributions to #libreoffice #writer, but I have been a contributor for a decade or so allowing me to know it will be in dire straits without this bunch: Caolan, mst, Miklos and sberg -- not just for their code, but also for their hearts and souls serving and growing Writer for multiple decades, bringing it from the shaky StarOffice origins to the trusty workhorse it became.

I guess @erAck can say the same about #Calc now without e.g. @kohei .

#opensource #floss #productivity

https://community.documentfoundation.org/t/thank-you-caolan/13609
https://community.documentfoundation.org/t/thank-you-michael-stahl/13596
https://community.documentfoundation.org/t/thanks-for-your-work-miklos/13612
https://community.documentfoundation.org/t/thank-you-stephan/13605

Thank you, Caolán!

Dear Caolán, Thank you for all the hard work for the project. It’s hard to find a piece of code you didn’y touch and improved! The total number of commits above 36 000 (yes, 36 * 1000) is impressive, you were one of the “core” top 10 contributors. Many of them resolved countless Coverity and OSS-Fuzzer and crash-testing findings, driving LibreOffice code quality to new heights. You was the face of Huge internal re-factorings: did the most of the work to elevate the UI code to a todays st...

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Hi, I don't really understand what happened at @tdforg and @libreoffice ? I see that many core people left (or were kicked out ?). What did actually happen?

https://community.documentfoundation.org/c/board-discuss/26

@Sweetshark @erAck @kohei
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@GerryT @tdforg @libreoffice @Sweetshark @erAck @kohei

All I know is what the two (opposing) blog posts said; it's all confusing to me. 🤷🏻‍♂️