OpenOffice.org has been in continuous development for over twenty years, and is over 10,000 kloc in size. Although we do try hard to encourage new developers to join the team, it’s a pretty steep learning curve to master, and finding where to dive in and really make a difference to users isn’t easy.

I was interested to see we aren’t the only open-source project with this problem.  One of the Quotes of the Week in Linux Weekly News was from Ingo Molnar:

Linux is a 18+ years old kernel, there’s not that many easy projects left in it anymore :-/ Core kernel features that look basic and which are not in Linux yet often turn out to be not that simple.

Amen to that.

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