The Document Foundation has a series of statistics gave insight into the development process of Libre Office, the open source office suite on the basis of OpenOffice.org. The numbers show a rapid growth of the project.
After many OpenOffice.org-developers dissatisfaction had arisen about the attitude of Oracle, was on 28 september 2010 The Document Foundation was established. The source code of OpenOffice.org was the fork included and served as a starting point for Libre Office. The OpenOffice.org-alternative quickly gained the support of several major parties, including various Linux distributions, which also promised to code to contribute.
In statistics, that The Document Foundation on his blog has published, is to see that the project is healthy and expanding rapidly. Circa 400 developers have code delivered to Libre Office, while monthly between 50 and 100 developers active on the office suite work.
From the commit statistics shows that SUSE and Red Hat almost half of the code soon. Also is code from the OOo-project in Libre Office processes, while the contribution of Ubuntu developer Canonical is significantly smaller.
Libre Office would also be good catch on with users. According to The Document Foundation, an estimated 10 million persons in the open-source office suite tried. With the upcoming arrival of Libre Office 3.5 should this market grow further.
