Mathias Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>> 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). > > I think that the QA project has made a real effort to close off bugs that have simpley been outdated. And some bugs, such as the various move-by-sentence ones introduced some time in 2004, are clearly never going to be fixed, and don't seem to affect anyone but me, so I just use the workarounds I made. But there are some enhancements/features, which have been there for many years, that I think really are by now urgent. The most glaring of these, for writer users, is the useless notes/comments in OOo compared to MS Word. (Issue 6193). this has attracted 101 votes and god knows how many duplicates since the summer of 2002. It is clearly something that irritates a lot of users, many of whom are exactly the kind of people the project should be targeting -- power users who collaborate with Word users. -- Andrew Brown The email in the header does not work very well. Contact details and possibly useful macros from http://www.darwinwars.com/lunatic/bugs/oo_macros.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
