Hi Pedro, On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 09:10:27PM +0100, Pedro Lino wrote: > Hi all > > Today I submitted this bug request > https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=125291 > > It was marked as a duplicate of > https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=8812 > > Although I agree that it is a duplicate, the original was so old that when > I searched for a similar bug request, it didn't even show up. > > However I think that closing a new bug with more (and recent) information > is not a good idea (and is not the way to move this project forward)
The bug is a duplicated, then why isn't a good idea to mark it as such? Besides, I already answered on bug 8812 that I don't see where is the more recent information in bug 125291, apart from the statement that the bug is solved in LO: there is no mention of LO bug reports, code commits, developers, etc. "Unlimited number of rules for conditional formatting" seems a feature by Robert Dargaud, see http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/PATCH-conditional-formatting-with-an-unlimited-number-of-rules-td2777088.html "New conditional formats" is a feature by Markus Mohrhard. You or anyone interested is free to contacted them and ask them if they are willing to relicense their code under the ALv2 - I wouldn't be too optimistic, see http://mmohrhard.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/why-i-contribute-my-changes-to-libreoffice-and-wont-relicense-them-to-a-non-copyleft-license/ But all this is unrelated to the bug report and its duplicated nature. > I think that the number of comments and number of duplicates should > indicate that this is not an irrelevant feature. Shouldn't this be enough > to bump the IMPORTANCE? Of course, this can be done; I don't use Calc, so I cannot measure how important the feature is (and have no idea how to measure those 34 votes; compared with the millions of downloads, they don't seem much). Also note that raising the importance has no effect on development has long as there is no developer to code the feature. > Furthermore, after commenting I could notice that copies were sent to [...] > Are any of these people still involved in AOO? I've no idea (with the exception of some familiar addresses); some may have added themselves, others were added by the bug tracking system when marking duplicates; in any case, bugzilla emails them about changes in the bug, and if they find this annoying, they can remove themselves from the Cc list, or edit their mail preferences. Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina
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