I've taken ownership of libreoffice for the time being, at least to keep the lights
on. Co-maintainers, as always, welcome.
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On Thursday, June 1st, 2023 at 1:30 PM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Hey,
as you've probably seen, the LibreOffice RPMS have recently been
orphaned, and I thought it would be good to explain the reasons
behind this.
The Red Hat Display Systems team (the team behind most of Red Hat’s
desktop efforts) has maintained the LibreOffice packages in Fedora for years as part of
our work to support LibreOffice for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We are adjusting our
engineering priorities for RHEL for Workstations and focusing on gaps in Wayland, building
out HDR support, building out what’s needed for color-sensitive work, and a host of other
refinements required by Workstation users. This is work that will improve the workstation
experience for Fedora as well as RHEL users, and which, we hope, will be positively
received by the entire Linux community.
The tradeoff is that we are pivoting away from work we had been doing
on desktop applications and will cease shipping LibreOffice as part of RHEL starting in a
future RHEL version. This also limits our ability to maintain it in future versions of
Fedora.
We will continue to maintain LibreOffice in currently supported
versions of RHEL (RHEL 7, 8 and 9) with needed CVEs and similar for the lifetime of those
releases (as published on the Red Hat website). As part of that, the engineers doing that
work will contribute some fixes upstream to ensure LibreOffice works better as a Flatpak,
which we expect to be the way that most people consume LibreOffice in the long term.
Any community member is of course free to take over maintenance, both
for the RPMS in Fedora and the Fedora LibreOffice Flatpak, but be aware that this is a
sizable block of packages and dependencies and a significant amount of work to keep up
with.
Matthias
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