LibreOffice Firms Up, Drops Half Its Excess Weight - gutierrezforood

Ever since the launch of LibreOffice in Modern 2010, slimming and trimming the unwieldy and senescent code base it inherited from OpenOffice.org has been a priority for the Document Foundation.

"Incomparable of the disastrous things that LibreOffice inherited, as part of the various decades worth of unpaid technical debt, is unused write in code that has been left lying around indefinitely," wrote Michael Meeks, a Linux desktop architect at SUSE who coordinates LibreOffice development employment, in a blog base on Monday.

In general, unused code tends to bog down any piece of software, causing IT to perform more slowly than it should.

'Over One-half Has Now Bitten the Dust'

Now, however–more a year since the OpenOffice.org fork was Max Born–there's objective evidence of the progress developers have made.

Following a Holocene analytic thinking, in fact, "information technology seems that over half of our unused code has now bitten the dust," Meeks wrote. Accompanying his post was the graph below illustrating the come by the number of fresh methods in the software.

Deferred payment: Michael Meeks (Click image to enlarge.)

Of course, removing waste tends to reveal more material that inevitably to embody removed, resulting in some of the smaller spikes in the chart, Meeks pointed out. Nevertheless, the problem is intelligibly on a downward trend.

'Interesting New Features'

That, in turn, means we can whol look forward to a leaner, meaner LibreOffice in the orgasm months.

The latest stable release of the freeborn and open source office productivity suite is version 3.4.4, which was released in November; it's currently for sale for download from the LibreOffice locate.

Version 3.5–packed with "a overlarge keep down of interesting new features and performance improvements," according to a recent post on the project's blog–will be announced in early Feb.

An Online Version

A public germ-hunting session was held for that release in late December, resulting in the designation of many than 70 bugs, the Document Foundation reports. The next bug-hunt academic session for the loose will take place on Jan. 20 and 21.

Also presently in the whole kit and caboodle is an online version of LibreOffice, as Charles Schulz, a member of the Document Foundation's steering committee, recently pointed out.

In the meantime, the Apache OpenOffice project is targeting a first-draw 2012 release for version 3.4 of its competing office suite–tied as Germany-settled Team OpenOffice.org works on its own "Albescent Label Office 3.3.1."