https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64930
--- Comment #5 from Joel Madero <jmadero....@gmail.com> --- Even though this isn't the best place to address the points, I will do so: 1. The bug count is for ALL bugzilla products, not just LibreOffice - so 64930 is no accurate at all. This is not saying that our bug count is not high but it is just correcting the record. A lot of the bugs that are reported were inherited from OOo, the vast majority actually, with limited number of developers, it's just the nature of FLOSS that not every bug will be fixed with every release (or ever in some cases...) 2. There has been talk about this, ultimately we don't have the resources to have two separate branches completely (one super stable with no new features, the other with the features constantly being requested) but the code is out there, open and free, if someone wants to make a product that has zero additional features and just cherry pick and apply stability patches, they can do so within the framework of the license. Just to give you an idea, a lot of additional features are just keeping up with compatibility with MSO - every release they have they change things, so we have to update filters and what not to ensure cross compatibility - without these, I guarantee a lot of users would be very angry. 3. I give this advice whenever these cases come about (where a bug is fixed in a newer release), and never get complaints - but for you, feel free to ignore it and not update. Last point, as you can see this isn't our workflow. Kohei is one of our main developers, one of two experts for Spreadsheet and he has verified what I already said. We just simply do not have the resources - and again, you will find this with EVERY big FLOSS project. If you look at how Gnome, Ubuntu, KDE, etc.. etc... work. Older releases usually get only super vital patches, if a "normal bug" (ie, not a crasher, security issue, etc...) is found and fixed in a newer release, it is not backported frequently in order to avoid: a) regressions on a minor release (such as 3.6.7) b) the time that it takes to review bugs for code that can be substantially different than newer releases I apologize if you disagree with this methodology, but I hope you can understand that lack of resources is a serious restraint and because of this, we have to continue moving forward. I would invite you to join our QA team on #libreoffice-qa, we'd love an additional hand. We have 1,000+ UNCONFIRMED bugs for a relatively small team to triage - this alone is hundreds of hours worth of work - and none of us are being paid for it. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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