The Document Foundation Shows Development Statistics

The Document Foundation has chosen to make public the way LibreOffice is developed and to show how everything gets done with a piece of software so complex and which is more or less developed by the community.

According to The Document Foundation, there are almost 400 developers. The reason for this disclosure is not quite clear, but it was made in anticipation of the upcoming LibreOffice 3.5, which should arrive sometime next week.

Here are some interesting numbers: there are 250 occasional volunteers who dabble with small patches, 100 regular volunteers who take care of large patches and small features, and a core of 50 people, some of which are paid, that cover key features and key patches.

Apparently, the biggest bug reporter, by far, is a volunteer called R. Bielefeld followed closely by B. Michaelsen from Canonical.

The report is full of interesting statistics, so just check it out by clicking on the image above. A PDF version can be found here.

Meanwhile, you can download LibreOffice 3.4.5 / 3.5.0 RC2 right now from Softpedia.