Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice

Outgoing Apache OpenOffice project management committee (PMC) chair DennisHamilton has begun the discussion of a possible (note possible atthis point) shutdown of the project."In the case of Apache OpenOffice, needing to disclose securityvulnerabilities for which there is no mitigation in an update has become aserious issue.In responses to concerns raised in June, the PMC is currently tasked by theASF Board to account for this inability and to provide a remedy. Anindicator of the seriousness of the Board's concern is the PMC been requestedto report to the Board every month, starting in August, rather thanquarterly, the normal case. One option for remedy that must be considered isretirement of the project. The request is for the PMC's consideration amongother possible options." (Thanks to James Hogarth.)

Also of interest is this note on how thehandling of CVE-2016-1513 went.