Hi all, On 7 December 2013 22:11, Charles-H. Schulz <charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: > I am concerned that thls call to postpone is rooted in unrealistic > expectations and ultimately makes us lose time while demotivating team > members.
Well, I am kind of afraid to open this can of worms in this thread... especially since I am now acting as a necromancer, too. ;) LibreOffice has a certain tendency to ship with half-done or (pessimistically speaking) half-broken features that get very little attention in the next cycle, as the developer(s) has/have moved on already to the next project. So, the developer tries to make sure that the worst things are ironed out until x.x.2 or so and then just does not have time for the feature anymore. After that, the hope usually is that some (other) volunteer hacker might come around and do the rest of the work. Of course, the problem with that thinking is that the first 80 % of the work are done in 20 % of the time, so even if the mythical helper comes out of the dark shadows, they are facing a pretty big battle. And that is where I think Michel wanted to go. Of course there is at least two more aspects to this, one is communication with design (where people are excitable and have also moved on already, so the developer sometimes wants to reach us, but nobody cares) and the too small beta testing community (which could find problems before the cycle ends). <exaggeration>Of course, the biggest features usually come in right before RC1.</exaggeration> Astron. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted