Still, more is going to be needed to convince the rest of the free software world. Still, OpenOffice and the Apache Foundation deserve recognition for having done enough to fix the most pressing problems and to achieve any progress, no matter how slow. To counter this perspective, OpenOffice needs a killer feature or two, but with the time lost to organizational problems, just getting a release out may be the most that can be managed.
Although OpenOffice supporters see the project as the true successor of - which is true legally - in practice, LibreOffice's innovations make many in the free software world see it as the practical successor.
Many observers believe its merger with LibreOffice not only sensible, but inevitable, held back mainly by old animosities. On a larger scale, the issue of what OpenOffice can offer to justify its existence remains undetermined. In particular, the projected release date for late 2015 is perhaps optimistic, considering the size of the code base and the continued shortage of developers. These are all indications of a turnaround, but so far they amount to no more than a promising beginning. So far, Hamilton has gone out of his way to emphasize a lack of animosity towards LibreOffice and other derivatives, a position that should allow the project to focus its limited resources on more practical matters. Hamilton has become chair-elect, running unopposed. Meanwhile, Iversen has stepped down, and Dennis E. Since then, up to a dozen messages a day have been posted about development of the 4.1.2. Soon after, Pescetti announced that the unpatched vulnerability was patched in the new 4.1.2 branch. In July, former chair Andrea Pescetti became release manager. Recently, however, OpenOffice has showed signs of straightening itself out. The situation wasn't helped, either, by project manager Jan Iversen, who reacted to any mention of these difficulties with hostility, accusing writers of bias and refusing to cooperate with them. Noting such facts, several writers have described the project as almost dying, and called for its remnants to merge with LibreOffice, with which it shares the common ancestor of. The position of release manager was vacant for nine months, and project reports admit to a shortage of developers and infrastructure for welcoming new ones. Since then, progress in the project has been glacial, with a security vulnerability left unpatched since April 2014. OpenOffice's last release was 4.1.1 on August 21, 2014. However, whether the progress will be enough to make the project a success remains impossible to predict. It's taken a year, but Apache OpenOffice finally seems to be moving forward.
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