Thank you a lot, Stuart and Joel. Maybe I really should have set the severity as 'enhancement'. Anyway, now I better understand how to explain such situation to Russian- speaking users.
Best regards, Lera В письме от 23 ноября 2014 09:44:34 пользователь Joel Madero написал: > On 11/23/2014 09:21 AM, V Stuart Foote wrote: > > @Lera, *, > > > > First thank you for taking on the translation tasks, we know it can be > > challenging. > > > > > > Lera Goncharuk wrote > > > >> Do I understand correctly, that we should consult with developers when a > >> bug > >> violates principles of mathematical calculations and we give the status > >> NEW > >> only when developers confirm than bug can be fixed? > >> Do mathematical rules no longer apply to LibreOffice? > >> What should I tell users? > > Also with these corner case spreadsheet issues - many times they are > closed as WONTFIX or NOTABUG because developers determine that it's just > the nature of how integers work in computers. There will always be some > inaccuracy (Excel has similar issues) and developers have to determine > if the particular corner case is going to be resolved and thus possibly > screw up other users. Similar issues have been reported and Kohei wrote > a great description of the issue. > > So I would not go as far as saying "mathetmatical calculations" don't > matter - what I would say is it's incredibly hard to explain these > limitations to regular users who aren't aware of how code works. So - > usually what I do for these particular kinds of issues is I jump into > the developer chat and I ask a developer if it's actually a bug - if > they say "no it's a limitation of computer based calculations" then I > close as NOTABUG and try to explain....usually that fails, users are > annoyed and aren't able to understand that there are in fact real > limitations as to what a spreadsheet document is capable of. > > > Best, > Joel > _______________________________________________ > List Name: Libreoffice-qa mailing list > Mail address: Libreoffice-qa@lists.freedesktop.org > Change settings: > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-qa Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-qa/ _______________________________________________ List Name: Libreoffice-qa mailing list Mail address: Libreoffice-qa@lists.freedesktop.org Change settings: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-qa Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-qa/
