Hi James,

>> Hmm. Didn't even know this issue comes from TCM. Anyway.
>>
> It does.

Perhaps a policy to add some "TCM:" in front of the summary of such
issues might be worth considering. While this doesn't *automatically*
mean the issue does get more attention, it could make a developer spend
a few minutes to see if there's a quick fix. At least those developers
who care to not waste QA resources :)

> There is a test to look at the alignment functionality in a table.
> I don't know why this is implemented here and not in a report.  In my mind, it
> does not make much sense to align a field in a table in a certain fashion, but
> in a report it very much does.

I suppose this is a relict from this dialog being re-used - it was
created for other purposes (use in Writer/Calc), and re-used for the tables.

>> As much as I understand that it's frustrating to report/QA bugs which
>> don't get attention for years, that's, as said in another thread here, a
>> matter of resources and priorities.
>>
> I am well aware of this limitation.  I was questioning if it even was worth
> looking into as I don't think this feature is even used much in the real 
> world.

Not sure. I myself like to display table content centered. If we had
quick and easy reporting, I probably need this for tables, but alas ...

>> And, in the hope this doesn't sound too harsh: I would not be willing to
>> spend any (non-negligible) amount of time into an issue just to satisfy
>> TCM (or any other QA process, for that matter). That is, if the bug does
>> have a very limited impact only *in real life* (as indicated by the
>> priority), then I'd consider it a waste of precious resources to fix it
>> before the more important issues.
> 
> You will not get an argument out of me on this.

Hmm. Not sure whether this means you were offended by what I said ...

> TCM needs more than just a small space for an issue as you have to go look 
> up the issue to see if it affects the platform you are testing on and if
> it has been fixed or not.  This would help greatly in the TCM QA effort.
> Maybe another issue to file?

I don't have an opinion here, as I don't know TCM myself (and all our QA
folks which could explain it to me is not in the office, yet :).
I'd simply imagine something like a tag "don't test this item, it's
broken, which is issue #i12345#", so you guys can ignore it. Not sure if
that's feasible.

Ciao
Frank

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