On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 12:21 AM, David C. Rankin <[email protected]> wrote: > Guys, > > I apologize if this has been asked and answered, but over the past year I > have filed several bugs against Libre which would also apply to OO 3.4. How > do you want to handle these types of issues? Do you review the Libre tracker > at freedesktop.org or do duplicates bugs need to be opened in the apache > tracker? >
Hi David, thanks for the great question. I don't think I've seen this question come up before. Currently there is no automatic exchange of bug reports between the two projects. I don't think that would make sense in general. From what I've seen there are many bugs in LO that do not exist in OOo, and presumably when we put out Apache releases we'll have bugs that don't exist in LO. But certainly there will be defects that exist in both products. And where we know that it will make sense to share the reports. Probably the easiest solution is, when you believe the defect exists in OOo as well, to enter a new defect in the AOOo Bugzilla, with a link to the LO defect. And then add a comment to the LO defect pointing to the AOOo defect report. No need to duplicate the content, but it would be useful to cross-link the defect reports. That way it will be easier for LO to find and grab our patches when we fix an issue. > I presume you won't want duplicates filed, but is there some mechanism in > place to make sure those bugs don't slip through the cracks and plague OO > 3.4 the way they have Libre 3.4? May also be worth a note on the > http://incubator.apache.org/projects/openofficeorg.html page or the > https://issues.apache.org/ooo/ page. Thanks. > Let's see if there are any better ideas for how to track these cross-product defects, and then we can document the consensus recommendations, on the website (hopefully also at the LO website as well). Regards, -Rob > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. >
