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0 pointsosrec7y ago0 comments

I agree with what you're saying, but I'm not going to be pessimistic about the endeavour! I think, given time, we can build something that solves at least some use cases better than Calc.

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grandinj7y ago

Libreoffice hacker here. Calc is one of the nicer parts of the codebase. Don’t underestimate the enormous list of features that are required in a modern spreadsheet engine. We’re talking 100s of man-years of coding. Come join us and make it better. Or task one of the available consultancies to implement the features you want.

osrecOP7y ago

I know I am underestimating; I have a tendency to do that, so I appreciate the warning. May I ask how many people currently contribute to LibreOffice regularly?

grandinj7y ago

There are about 20 people or so who contribute on a frequent basis i.e. at least weekly.

But we have a very long tail of people who contribute less often.

You can see the commit frequency here: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/log/

Come hang out on the libreoffice-dev IRC channel if you have more questions

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grandinj7y ago

osrecOP7y ago

I know I am underestimating; I have a tendency to do that, so I appreciate the warning. May I ask how many people currently contribute to LibreOffice regularly?

grandinj7y ago

There are about 20 people or so who contribute on a frequent basis i.e. at least weekly.

But we have a very long tail of people who contribute less often.

You can see the commit frequency here: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/log/

Come hang out on the libreoffice-dev IRC channel if you have more questions

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