Cor Nouws
Sun, 25 May 2008 23:10:42 -0700
Hi Ferry, James McKenzie wrote (26-5-2008 3:12)
Andrew Ziem wrote:On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Ferry Toth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Although this would be noble, some people are prevented from doing so with company computers!Woah, a 1000 issues to go. It is probably not my place to interfere here, but please: For us users using Openoffice all day, and who choose not to keep the 'other' Office as a fall back, it is important to see the number of bugs steadily decreasing. As always a new version introduces new features, and new bugs as well, and the user experience does not always make a leap forward. Please take the opportunity of introducing the new version 3.0 with as much old bugs fixed as possible, even if it means delaying the introduction of 3.0!One way you yourself can raise the quality of the final release is byvolunteering with the QA project[1] to report new and triage existing bugs.[1] http://qa.openoffice.orgI agree with Ferry's attitude, the OpenOffice.org project needs to be the highest quality software that we, as project, can provide. This may mean slippage of the release date, but not by months and months. We should attempt to find and eliminate as many problems as we can with the beta cycle and maybe even work through a couple of release candidates before unleashing a general availability release. All known errors should be documented and have a possible and plausible fix release target.
As further explanation: if you are able to test and/or work with developer snapshots or beta's, that is of great value. Fixing problems in that stage of the process, is much easier than when the release candidates are already there. If you like to do some work in contact with people of the Dutch native language project, pls look at this page:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/NL_QAI share you ideas, btw. But also realise the complexity of the process around the huge product, that OpenOffice.org is ...
Thanks for sharing, kindest regards, Cor -- "The Year of 3" -2008- "Het jaar van 3" Cor Nouws Arnhem - Netherlands - nl.OpenOffice.org - marketing contact --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]