On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Rich <r...@hq.vsaa.lv> wrote: > seeing as my bug made the list, i'll chime in. > i've reported quite some bugs, absolute majority being found in real life > usage. but i'm not the casual user, as i run dev snapshots most of the time, > which increases chances of stumbling upon bugs. > > i'd like to think i'm not the only one who does that ;),
No, you aren't. We're in the same boat. And our app uses 10% of the UNO API (measured by X* interfaces used), so there's a significant chance that a regression will hit us. > i think you already have guessed where i'm heading - stability and usability > (as in "fit for purpose") of dev snapshots. if dev snapshot has a critical > problem that prevents me from using it i'll "regress" to last stable > version, and, quite likely, will stay with it for a while. I wholeheartely agree. This was a big issue with 3.1. OOo was so broken for a while that it was unusable and we simply stopped building OOo since we saw no point to it. When we got back into testing (OOO310_m6) we found several regressions but we were too late for 3.1. The result is that OOo 3.1 will be the worst OOo ever from our POV. It's so broken that it's impossible to use with our app and our organization (that's over 9000 OOo installations) will have to completely skip 3.1 and pray for 3.2 to be better. > that means i won't find some other bug that will prevent somebody else from > using a dev build and finding yet another bug and so on ;) Exactly. Because we have to skip 3.1 due to its brokenness, there may be other regressions that we won't be able to find until 3.2 and we may end up having to skip that release also, which will prevent us from finding more bugs, and so on... It's absolutely no fun to maintain a complex app that interfaces with OOo. There are so many regressions and backwards-incompatible changes that about every second MINOR version release of OOo breaks our app and requires us to change stuff and/or introduce workarounds. There needs to be more stability and fewer regressions! Matthias --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.org
