[shaftoe]

It appears to be true. https://github.com/apache/openoffice/activity

[laurent123456]

All these commits are so strange. They are all useless "clean up" commits yet they are not done by a bot, there's someone manually making these changes every few days, almost every day actually.

Don't know if he's really trying to make the project seem active, or trying to score a certain number of commits, or if he's just really passionate about cleaning up that codebase all by himself.

[yifanl]

Mostly to me, it shows the importance of a sane lint/format step in the pre-commit hook, it prevents engineers spending an near-infinite amount of time on this type of cleanup.

[yankput]

It doesn’t look malicious, it seems he is randomly looking and fixing the codebase and the ASF lets him because who cares.

[Allamande]

As an programmer with OCD, I understand this maintainer. A lot of times I tidy up old code while trying to remember how something was done.

Also, I read a lot of the diffs and even a bit of the dev mailing list, development is as slow as it gets but there is new code being commited.

[foldr]

I don't see anything particularly strange about them. This recent commit, for example, fixes some typos and changes some formatting a bit. HN seems to be taking a very conspiratorial turn in its thinking recently.

https://github.com/apache/openoffice/compare/d98be9a24613ebe...