On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Pedro Giffuni <p...@apache.org> wrote: > Hello David; > > If you find a bug in OpenOffice.org file it directly > on Apache's bugzilla. Duplicate bug reports are fine, > they really are. > > So far I am the only one in the business of actually > committing fixes to issues, so trust me and ignore > completely what Rob suggested. I will act with extreme > prejudice ignoring any bug report linked to libreoffice > on the principle that such contributions or the resulting > followups are not made under a compatible license. I won't > even look at them. >
Do you really think the facts expressed in a bug report are covered by a license? I'm not talking about patches, but the facts of "Do X, Y and Z and Calc crashes?". If you think that, then I think you are mistaken. -Rob > best regards, > > Pedro. > > --- On Wed, 11/9/11, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > ... >> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 12:21 AM, >> David C. Rankin >> <drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Guys, >> > >> > I apologize if this has been asked and answered, but >> over the past year I >> > have filed several bugs against Libre which would also >> apply to OO 3.4. How >> > do you want to handle these types of issues? Do you >> review the Libre tracker >> > at freedesktop.org or do duplicates bugs need to be >> opened in the apache >> > tracker? >> > >> >> Hi David, thanks for the great question. I don't >> think I've seen this >> question come up before. >> >> Currently there is no automatic exchange of bug reports >> between the >> two projects. I don't think that would make sense in >> general. From >> what I've seen there are many bugs in LO that do not exist >> in OOo, and >> presumably when we put out Apache releases we'll have bugs >> that don't >> exist in LO. But certainly there will be defects that >> exist in both >> products. And where we know that it will make sense >> to share the >> reports. >> >> Probably the easiest solution is, when you believe the >> defect exists >> in OOo as well, to enter a new defect in the AOOo Bugzilla, >> with a >> link to the LO defect. And then add a comment to the LO >> defect >> pointing to the AOOo defect report. No need to >> duplicate the content, >> but it would be useful to cross-link the defect reports. >> That way it >> will be easier for LO to find and grab our patches when we >> fix an >> issue. >> >> > I presume you won't want duplicates filed, but is >> there some mechanism in >> > place to make sure those bugs don't slip through the >> cracks and plague OO >> > 3.4 the way they have Libre 3.4? May also be worth a >> note on the >> > http://incubator.apache.org/projects/openofficeorg.html >> page or the >> > https://issues.apache.org/ooo/ page. Thanks. >> > >> >> Let's see if there are any better ideas for how to track >> these >> cross-product defects, and then we can document the >> consensus >> recommendations, on the website (hopefully also at the LO >> website as >> well). >> >> Regards, >> >> -Rob >> >> > -- >> > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. >> > >> >
