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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Tue Jan 6 20:26:42 +0000 2009 ------- @mru - I'm really sorry I cannot contribute to OOo as I have many, many years of development experience. But I'm retired from the mêlée of development now and quite honestly don't want to dump myself into the cauldron again. In my over thirty years of experience development resources have *always* been limited ... because they are expensive. But our QA teams have always been unrelenting on product quality and any reliably repeatable bug was required to be fixed before any release went forth. In fact, all future development will be stopped ... even at Microsoft ... and resources turned on these problems until they are gone. All "we'll fix in the future" and "nice to have" issues are either DROPPED if unneeded or advanced in priority after every release if required ... so level 3 problems become level 2 problems and level 2 problems become level 1 problems if the development team is not doing its job of getting them solved. Even though these bugs kept me at work for many hours ... they did get addressed ... because management insisted that it was so ... and almost all of them wasn't even my code, but the team's code ... because of the different skill levels of the programmers. I'm sorry that resources are slim ... but as I say ... who needs new features when the existing code is laden with bugs? Adding new code only increases the population of bugs. And I disagree with fme's assessment ... a repaint problem is not a trivial bug in a WYSIWYG editor. When garbage appears on the screen and the user is spending time cleaning up his own document, he doesn't need the editor to be placing its garbage there as well. It becomes a lot of time chasing ghosts. And every new person identifying an existing bug over a period of four years ... and the time involved in isolating and creating a minimal test case and taking time to submit the bug and the development team re-identifying it as a duplicate over FOUR years is not a good use of either the customer's or the developer's time. I nevertheless thank everyone for bringing this wonderful product to open development. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
