Thank you for this feedback. 

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013, at 9:57, Jürgen Schmidt wrote:
> On 6/20/13 8:01 PM, Edwin Sharp wrote:
> > Yes. 
> > please allow to share the following objections:
> > 1. in general, bugs shouldn't be rated
> 
> I disagree here and you always rate issues starting with setting a
> priority. And as always you can't fix them all with a fix number of
> developers. It simply doesn't work. That means you have to prioritize
> and that is quite normal.
> 
> > 2. most are crashes - "release blocker" can be other than crash - i.e. copy 
> > chart from Calc into Writer results in chart area without curve. this is a 
> > huge bug that doesn't involve a crash
> exactly and we have defined some criteria for issues, crashes, data loss
> and security issues have always high priority. Regressions are also very
> important especially when often used functionality is broken.
> 
> It is documented in the wiki but I haven't the reference in place yet,
> have to look for it.
> 
> > 3. with all the respect to Norwegian users, print dialog too wide is a 
> > negligible problem
> not for this specific user group and the fix is already available.
> 
> > 4. there should be a documented evidence to the bug evaluation process, 
> > based on approved SOP
> I am not sure if I understand you here
> 
> > 5. the general public has no declared release date - no need to rush as 
> > there is no commitment to fulfill
> no but the project have committed to a release date and I believe the
> majority of the community support the new release. You have to set a
> date and have define what is important for this date. You can always do
> more and can fix more issues but that won't work very well.
> 
> > 6. "minor" bugs should also get attention and be targeted
> definitely but not short in front of a release. And of course nobody
> prevent anybody from fixing such issues. We have a lot of them, many are
> probably not longer valid and can be closed, other are not easy to fix
> and so on. A good start would be of course to simply check older issues
> if they are still valid or not.
> 
> > 7. the judgment of introducing the sidebar with so many pending bugs should 
> > be justified to demonstrate openness
> as far as I know we haven't pending bugs here. Don't mix this up with
> improvement or feature requests. Maybe I don't understand you and you
> can explain it again
> 
> > 8. RTF is rarely used today - no reason for two appearances in the list
> RTF is as far as I known relevant for Ms interoperability in general and
> important for other MS filters as well. Even the pure format is not used
> often the functionality is important. If somebody knows more please
> correct me.
> 
> > 9. Are there no "critical" bugs in Math, Draw and Base?
> probably yes and probably many other critical bugs in other areas that
> are not detected yet or not proposed as showstopper
> 
> > 10. Are there enough volunteers to treat these "release blockers" on time?
> we hope we can fix them all but volunteers are never enough ;-)
> 
> If you think that other issue should be showstopper as well, please
> propose them on the dev list and we can discuss them. That's the way how
> we want to handle it
> 
> Further discussion should take place on the dev list
> 
> 
> Juergen
> 
> 
> > Thank you
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, Jun 20, 2013, at 18:09, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> Any objections to mark these issues as release blocker?
> >>
> >> [1] 
> >> https://issues.apache.org/ooo/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=120250%20120443%20120513%20120559%20121008%20121143%20121256%20121435%20121479%20121751%20121925%20121968%20121977%20122163%20122300%20121772&list_id=68303
> >>
> >>
> >> Best regards, Oliver.
> >>
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