Hi Wolfgang,

On 1/11/07, Wolfgang Schaible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
Writing a issue was for me a must, but I have stopped it, it's
frustrating and wasted time: No answer, a incompetent answer, no
deadline...
[...]

I develop some business automation apps with Base and Calc [...]

Oh, Base: I feel your pain. When initally released with 2.0, Base was
(IMO) barely alpha quality. Particularly the developer tools were
nearly unusably bugridden. I tried to help by doing QA volunteer work
on Base. Unfortunately, from a QA volunteer perspective, Base bug
reports are difficult, and therefore unrewarding, to triage: the
problems people report often require their exact setup, with their
custom forms and backend server, to reproduce, or may require
specialized knowledge. I gave up reading Base issue reports after
awhile, because I was able to evaluate and progress so few of them.

I look at a fair number of Calc reports, though, so if you've submited
Calc reports that you feel went unanswered or incompetently answered,
I'd be happy to take a look. Please email me issue numbers off-list.

I think your largest concern is the lack of deadlines. Unfortunately,
unless you yourself are the developer, or are paying the developer,
the best bug report in the world won't necessarily align the
developer's priorities with yours. The good news is that the code is
available, and lots of work has been done to make it easier to compile
and get started in fixing the bugs which bother you and your customers
the most.

doug.

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