https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76047
--- Comment #42 from Julien Nabet <serval2...@yahoo.fr> ---
(In reply to egc from comment #41)
> (In reply to Julien Nabet from comment #40)
>
> As i already wrote, an other office package (MS) is already in use by some
> people in the company and at home, so the company for sure is not willing to
> pay for bug fixes in LO.
I had missed this part so no need to stick on LO indeed except if you're a big
supporter of OpenSource.
> I was hoping i could keep both office packages, but with such blocking bugs
> like this one, and for so long time, my arguments for keeping LO in the
> company are go to 0.
The goal of a company is to make money so no surprise here.
>
> As i said i'm not a software developer so i can not really tell, but i could
> imagine, that this bug is not such a big deal to be fixed by one of the
> programmers of LO. LO just duplicates the external links, so someone would
> just need to have a look at it why this happens, fix that, and that's it. I
> guess it could be done in 15 minutes for someone who knows the code.
So you're not a software dev but "you could imagine it's not a big deal".
What about taking some hours to learn some C++ (after all there are Youtube
videos to learn C++ in 1 or some hours) then give it a try, here's a link to
start with:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GetInvolved
To install needed software and build the code hours, let's suppose some 3/4
hours.
I'm pretty sure that just with a good will, you may submit a fix on gerrit in
some days.
There are also some people of your IT who may contribute. If they already know
how to program (and perhaps how to program in C++) perhaps they may submit a
bugfix in just 2 days?
>
> But i don't see any will of the LO developers to fix this bug ... People
> continue reporting the same thing since 6 years and nobody in LO seems to
> find it worth to deal with it. This is not just a minor bug, it is a deal
> breaker for a mixed environment with two office packages and more operating
> systems in use.
> That's why i don't understand why none of the programmers is trying to fix
> this bug. I repeat: It is a deal breaker. Not just a little formatting (or
> whatever) bug.
Consider this:
- take a look at the number of bugs declared in Bugzilla
- there are only about a dozen of expert devs which regularly contribute and in
those, there are some who are quite driven by the company they belong (I mean
they fix the bugs their company indicate wrt what clients paid)
=> it may give you some hints.
>
> So you're right, at the end it will be time consuming for me to convert all
> the calc sheets to Excel and make them work there. This way my effort goes
> actually into MS Office instead of LO ... which is absurd in my eyes ...
It's just your/company choice to not pay LO because they wrongly consider since
it's freely downloadable, you shouldn't pay to fix the bugs.
So stop telling it's just devs fault and see there's also you/your company
fault not willing to contribute in a way (money or programming).
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