On Saturday 30 September 2006 05:22, Mathias Bauer wrote: > Andrew Brown wrote: > > Reading that thread, in the bright light of hindsight, explains why I > > really don't believe that open source is a volunteer activity any more. > > One way or another, OOo is pretty much good enough for most things now. > > But I no longer expect any of the well-established bugs to get fixed. > > There just aren't the programmers to do it. So I no longer bother much > > with reporting things or with QA. > > Maybe we should definitely close many of the old issues that lie there > for years but I surely wouldn't like to miss new bug reports as they > still can point us to important problems that need a fix in the next > release(s). > > Best regards, > Mathias
I agree that we probably need to get a bit more active in this regard. There are a lot of issues that need closing if only on the basis of age or irrelevancy. However having said that there seems to be some seemingly small issues that fall into a gap in the grey foggy crossover area between one persons bug and another's enhancement that are quite old. For Example http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4854 reported in '02 on V 1.0.0 has 40 votes and has pretty much been ignored, although the high number of dupes does indicate it is still a current issue. So we still have to be a little careful but undoubtedly we need a policy on aged or irrelevant issues. Cheers Graham -- "GET LEGAL - GET OPENOFFICE.ORG" http://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org.nz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
