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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 13 18:57:34 +0000 2007 ------- @bm First of all, thanks for working on this issue. :-) >1. OOo is for free, it is open-source. Everybody can participate in its >development. I admit that getting started with OOo development is not easy, but >it is possible, and there have been patch submissions for bugs and features in >the chart already. And nobody who wrote anything into this issue can blame us >for not dealing with this feature for five years. If this was important to you, >you would have had five years to implement this yourself. Should be no problem >(according to those people). The fact that OpenOffice.org is free doesn't count much. SUN decided to distribute it for free, and it is not a justification for lack of feature or slow development. Telling that if nobody added this feature, the feature is not important is not exact. Many users have not enough knowledge nor time to learn to add features to OOo, but an expert coder should not have many issues. The algorithms are out there in all languages, and efficiently implemented in various libraries, among which there's GSL. >2. OOo is developed in a community. That means that there is no "us" and >"you". >"We" do not have the duty to do anything "you" want. "We all" have to work >together in a constructive way. As long as all the (two) developers for the >chart are payed by Sun Microsystems, it should also be clear that the influence >of this company to decide what features are implemented in which order, is >quite high. There evidently is a "you" (developers) and a "us" (users). And a lot of OOo users can't code, but you are right, we should work together. To do this however, it is necessary to communicate. And if it's true no one suggested how to implement this feature, no one asked for ideas and tried to communicate with users' community, so the responsibility is on both sides. I can understand that SUN influence is high, but if they ignored the chart module for such a long time, they clearly have some issues in their decision process. Just consider these two points: - The XY plot is the most used in schools, and in a XY plot usually sets have different number of elements. Trend lines and error bars are widely used too. The lack of these functionalities directly excluded OOo from the adoption in schools and universities, but also in labs and scientific institutes. - Having functionalities required in schools is having a product which probably will be adopted on a wider scale, because if people use it at school, they will use it for their work too. >3. Most of the people in the world are not scientists. Most of the people >working with OOo don't know what a regression curve is. Even more people don't >know what R^2 is. Just keep this in mind, when thinking about priorities of >features. Right. But most people go to school. Most people, at least once in their life plays with plots, curves, analytical geometry, experimental data. It's quite common to do lab experiments in high school for example, and to have to process small amount of data, plot them to compare their trends and so on. A good spreadsheet can be used in various ways for educational purposes. With kind regards. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
