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@libreoffice I don't understand the openoffice project.

They claim to maintain it, and if you look at the repository, there are updates all the time, but pretty much every single one of them are reformatting, some typo fixes, changes to formatting of documentation, etc.

You have to scroll way down before you find a single fix that actually changes the code.

https://github.com/apache/openoffice/commits/trunk/

Just read the commits. It's so very strange.

Why are hey even spending the time doing this? The only explanation I have is that they have some contract where someone is paying them money for it to be updated, and they do the absolute bare minimum to avoid breaking the contract.

This, unfortunately, has had an extremely harmful effect on the open source community, who are best represented by libreoffice here.