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change faq page templates to one universal format:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=37258
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This issue falls into the category of issues that Scott asks
me not to complain about. First, I rec'd a phone call, even
though I did not give permission for that. I don't believe
that I must have phone conversations with folks to perform
opensource work. To me, that is going to personal. I'm not
here for the personal aspect. I prefer to keep things all
business. That seems perfectly fair.
In the phone conversation, Ger complained, kinda snarkily,
about doing the script, which Scott asked him to do, in the
way that the others "templates" had been done. He claimed
that adding the navigation links to the top of the files was
incredibly harder than adding them to the bottom. As I am
still not experienced in scripts, I could only agree with
Ger's approach. How could I argue? That would seem extremely
unfair to this gift that has been set into place.
When the script was completed, ALL faqs now had navigation
links pointing to faqs 001.html and 003.html. This required
a huge amount of rework. I was left to do it on my own. I
did it, and I did not complain about it. I did make the
error public, so that we could all jump in to fix it, if we
wished. No one wished, and that was ok. You are right, there
is no issue with it by itself.
Add it to the others, and it feels like interference. Add it
to comments like, "if you don't like it, or need control, go
in and fix it yourself", and it feels like interference. For
this issue in particular, I had to stop my mission to
address this one, because we now had files on the site,
ready for user visits, and they were all filled with not
well behaved navigation links. This made the rework pretty
high priority. I felt obliged to fix it for the user base.
It would have been kinda encouraging to have the leaders
more aware and involved with this issue at the time, but I
did pick the quietly effective route, and just did the work.
As Scott pointed out, this type of thing is expected and we
should not complain about them, as we are all busy people.
He is right, yet this is an example that has added to the
frustration that I've allowed to build. I admit, there are
things in me that I must fix about my view point, to feel
better about these types of occurrences.
Thank you for your interest.
Sincerely,
Diane Mackay
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