Michael Meeks wrote: > Hi Uwe, > > On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 13:50 +0200, Uwe Fischer wrote: >> Don't get me wrong - I love this feature and I will never say anything >> negative about Michael Meeks, who surely is a programming genius. ;-) > > Haha ;-) the sarcasm detector just exploded.
I don't think that Uwe is sarcastic here. In our team you have made a name for yourself as being a great code hacker. :-) And besides the surrounding circumstances we are very thankful that you have upstreamed your code. >> How am I supposed to deliver a timely Help for this feature when >> - there is no Spec Doc > > Is it necessary to write a full spec. for porting a feature to a new > platform ? I hope not. How about porting all of OO.o to 64bit ? ;-) If your code would be a port *only* then it would enough to say "works the same as on Windows". This should apply to your 64 bit port example. >From your answers it is clear that this does not apply to the Linux quickstarter. If people want to test or document your feature they must know the differences. >> - the text string on Tools/Options/OOo/General is different from the >> existing text string on former Windows versions. I have no idea if this >> change also changes the existing text string for Windows versions to be >> the same as now on Solaris. > > Nope it does not - easy to see from the patch. Uwe is not a developer. You can't expect him to read the code. > ;-) haha - I often use the help myself. On the other hand, we shipped a > version of OO.o with this feature, and the help out of sync. to many > tens of thousands (if not millions) of users in our builds - and so far > I see no bug reports, so ... how important is this truly ? Are you really serious about this? Wrong documentation is even worse than no documentation and I can't believe that you opt for ditching the online help. Michael, nobody will "kill" you ;-) just because this has happened, but please recognize that specifications are needed at times. Code is for developers, documentation for end users. Amongst others the specification is the bridge between them that should make sure that code and documentation match. In the case of the Linux quickstarter it surely would have been enough to document the differences to the Windows quickstarter as QA and documentation should be familiar with this one. But at least this should have been happened. Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
