Re: OpenOffice most annoying bugs

[Marcus (OOo)]

Am 09/03/2011 04:59 PM, schrieb Rob Weir:
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Pedro F. Giffuni<giffu...@tutopia.com>  wrote:
Hi Marcus;
The exact flag in bugzilla is 3.4_release_blocker.

Not including *ALL* these 24 bugs for the next release
would be like saying to our contributors that we don't
care about them. We are talking about people that
spent *their* time coding and gave the preference
to contribute to OpenOffice that would now see that
their are efforts better appreciated elsewhere.


I think we should classify the bugs based on their impact on the
product, not on the identity of the person who submitted the patch.
It is possible for a long-time, important contributor to submit a
patch for a minor issue, and it is possible for a new person to submit
a last-minute fix for a very important issue.

We value all patches and all contributions, but that does not mean
that ever patch will necessarily make it into the very next release.
They might.  But they might not.  Integrating patches, testing them,
fixing them if necessary -- this all requires someone to do these
tasks.

As addition:

It's also about code quality and stability.

Currently we have already a (relative) stable code with the released OOo 
3.4 Beta. So, it would be IMHO not clever to through in all the new code 
from the 24 issues, build again and get surprised what is now not working.

We have to select very carfully what to integrate.

Second we should not forget, removing all code because it is not 
compatible with AL2 is already a big code change and nobody can predict 
what will or can happen on our road to the final AOO 3.4 release.

So, I would say lets change as most as necessary and integrate new 
things as less as possible. Please let us focus on what is really 
important for 3.4.

With the new branch for the next release independent from 3.4 we can do 
much more and integrate all the nice things from the remainign issues 
and much more.

Marcus



--- On Sat, 9/3/11, Marcus (OOo) wrote:

Am 09/03/2011 04:39 AM, schrieb Pedro F. Giffuni:
Hi;

I went through the early LibreOffice archives
checking which issues from our database they
considered for inclusion.

I have to say it was a GREAT idea to start
from the tip of the Hg development tree as
most fixes already appear closed (applied
or integrated to a CWS).

The following 24 open bugs in our database
include patches and have been integrated
(in some form) into LibreOffice:

Bug 1526 - Small Caps are different sizes twixt Word
and StarWriter
Bug 7065 - A wizard for Page Numbering
Bug 61927 - WW6: exporting a document twice replaces
capital danish characters with squares
Bug 76649 - sfx2: html parser support for html with
missing encoding
Bug 80184 - can't add SVG draw documents to gallery
via API
Bug 92341 - WW8: CTL/Thai font convert incorrectly
when import from MS Office 2003
Bug 94007 - Slideshow crashes on exit (multi-screen)
Bug 95369 - Writer crash related to input fields
Bug 97332 - MS Word 95 export filter does not
recognize Korean characters
Bug 100686 - wizards: Euro converter wizard don't work
when searching for calc documents in a dir
Bug 101057 - merge ww6 and wmf encoding spliter
Bug 101100 - allow -fstrict-aliasing
Bug 108846 - sfx2: gtk quick starter is still a bit
sick
Bug 111741 - extras: malformed XML file
Bug 112387 - extras: updated Hungarian standard.bau
Bug 112786 - unotools: make ConfigManager a
well-behaved singleton
Bug 112795 - sfx2: dock windows change position after
restart of the app
Bug 112821 - configure: system mythes is not used when
configured with --with-system-libs
Bug 113141 - fpicker: gtk Save As dialog should show
all appropriate formats by default
Bug 113803 - Add Tower labels
Bug 113873 - Russian dictionary for integration
Bug 114012 - sd: a11y crash because ctor chain calls
back into object before ctor is complete
Bug 114423 - sfx2: possible use of dangling reference
Bug 117017 - ARM optimization for armv6/armv7

Perhaps we should label them "3.4 showstopper"
or something.

Showstopper have their own definition. As we have not yet
defined a new
one I've taken the old definition:

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Showstopper

Especially these I cannot see as showstopper as from the
subject:
7065, 80184, 113141, 117017

Marcus



Also, someone please close Bugs 96705 and 113874,
they have dictionaries under a copyleft license so
we won't be including them into Apache OpenOffice.
____

Of course, I may have missed some fixes, but this
should cover all the changes up to March 2011.

Also, as was to be expected, the latest commits carry
less and less OOo fixes and more bugs of their own.
Just a sign that, well ... we are diverging.

cheers,

Pedro.