Hi :) Yes, it's not an idea i invited out of thin air ;) It keeps being confirmed too. I really like it when the old familiar system is an OpenSource one and just a variant of whatever i am migrating too.
At a guess it will be easier for people to fix long-standing bugs now that the code is cleaner and there are more people with experience of working with the code. I think what you are asking for is going to just happen naturally anyway. But i do agree that it would be nice to know that there are occasional posts to the devs list to point out that there are some older bugs that it would be good to work on. It probably does happen. They probably already have a system for it but it would be nice to report that to the other lists occasionally, such as this one. I don't think it was clear that your main concern was a lack of verifiable info. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Twayne <twa...@twaynesdomain.com> To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Fri, 26 August, 2011 17:55:58 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Re: Suggestions to PTB In news:1314348038.23154.yahoomai...@web24101.mail.ird.yahoo.com, Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> typed: > Hi :) > My answer is to keep whichever product you were using > previously. Just don't bother to upgrade it. Updates > are a good idea but paying for a full upgrade is > unnecessary. > > > That way you can use LibreOffice most of the time but > still go back to your old one for bits&bobs. > Regards from > Tom :) That's pretty much what I do, Tom; Cheers! > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Alexander Thurgood <alex.thurg...@gmail.com> > To: users@global.libreoffice.org > Sent: Fri, 26 August, 2011 7:16:53 > Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Suggestions to PTB > > Le 25/08/11 19:37, Twayne a icrit : > > Hi Twayne, > >> I would love to tell MS to kiss my shiny metal butt, >> but I can't as long as some of these serious bugs >> continue to be ignored. One man can push one car; as >> you're doing now, but not three or four at the same >> time. All this is part of watching out for the future of >> LO and being able to say its users are solidly behind >> it. Anythng that doesn't work shouldn't have been >> released until it does work. > > I fear you might have misunderstood how this project > functions. Most of > the bugs get fixed as and when someone decides that their > "itch to > scratch" is really starting to annoy them. The developers > working as > employees of some of the software companies involved in > the LibreOffice project do not have set agendas with > regard to bug fixing as such that I > know of - no doubt they have their own internal work > pressures and > priorities to deal with before sorting out bug X or bug > Y. Most of the volunteer developers participate in the > project because they like > developing, i.e. for fun. There's no fun involved in > being told which > bug to fix and why that particular bug should trump all > others, in that > case, they might as well go and develop something else. > The fact of the > matter is that there are still too few developers to be > able to maintain > the massive beast of code which LibreOffice represents. > Add to that the > fact that an even smaller number really know anything > about the code > base and how it works as a whole (i.e. where poking one > thing causes the butterfly to explode on your screen > 50,000 miles away). > > If you can live with the way the project functions, then > you can live > with the bugs. If not, then from a pragmatic point of > view you can > either do it yourself, pay someone to do it for you, or > else come back > to the project in a few months/years time to see if > things have moved on > in the direction you want. > > Alex > > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: > users+h...@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/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived > and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
