Hi Ariel, all > 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. >
I don't know how to use git, gerrit or any similar tools. From my perspective informing that this has an Open Source solution in another project seems to be a good pointer. I think that the idea for a community is that each person contributes with whatever skills they have and that doesn't make the contribution less important? > "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 > Personally I think this solution is quite elegant and as Robert comments on the thread, he just did copy and paste of existing code, so I guess doing the same with AOO code could not possibly be a copyright breach??? > "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/ > Yes, his position seems quite firm. But does his freedom remove the freedom for someone else to create a similar code? If he uses a condition (this is just an example, I'm not a developer) like "From ColourA to ColourB" does this mean that nobody can use that line of code ever in any other software? I don't think so... In fact in order to make LO compatible with Excel he had to copy the ideas, right? He had to create a conditional formatting with a gradient from A to B. Who implemented that first? Is that not a copy? > Also note that raising the importance has no effect on development has > long as there is no developer to code the feature. > I am well aware of that fact. But since any project has to have some directions maybe some developers focus on most requested/higher importance features (instead of coding what they feel like)? Regards, Pedro Faro, Portugal
