Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-22 Thread Kay Schenk
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: My take

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-21 Thread Joost Andrae
Hi Rob, But whatever the reason, I think it demonstrates that vote counts from the earlier years are extremely difficult to compare fairly with recent vote counts. And the fact that we don't even have a formal RFE for iOS or Android, even though we get daily requests for this via other means

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-21 Thread TJ Frazier
On 3/18/2013 11:12, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: ... - Dennis PS: My all-time favorite unreconcilable voted-for issue is the request for Reveal Codes in the manner of WordPerfect. Hi, Dennis, This is one of my favorites, too, and you might be of great help to my work. I read somewhere that

RE: A question about existing practices

2013-03-21 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
: Thursday, March 21, 2013 02:10 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: A question about existing practices On 3/18/2013 11:12, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: ... - Dennis PS: My all-time favorite unreconcilable voted-for issue is the request for Reveal Codes in the manner of WordPerfect. Hi

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-21 Thread TJ Frazier
/Reveal_Codes /tj/ -Original Message- From: TJ Frazier [mailto:tjfraz...@cfl.rr.com] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 02:10 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: A question about existing practices On 3/18/2013 11:12, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: ... - Dennis PS: My all-time favorite

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Guenter Marxen guenter.mar...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I have a little bit the impression, that Rob and Jürgen are not understanding, what is meant. There is no demand, that special issues shouldt be resolved asap. There is no demand, to give a date or

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Hagar Delest wrote: if the votes are reset, I'll take it as a huge setback for the users decisions Resetting votes does not make sense. There is a limit on how many bugs a user can vote for and votes can be

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Joost Andrae
Hi Rob, maybe it has other reasons like missing access to the former OOo login on the Apache infrastructure eg. one thing that went wrong with my OOo account. There could be several reasons for this: 1) Older issues are better issues because they were entered by smarter people. But then

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Joost Andrae joost.and...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Rob, maybe it has other reasons like missing access to the former OOo login on the Apache infrastructure eg. one thing that went wrong with my OOo account. But that doesn't explain the steady decline from 2002 to

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Hagar Delest wrote: if the votes are reset, I'll take it as a huge setback for the users decisions Resetting votes does not make sense. There is a limit on how many bugs a user can vote for and

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.net wrote: Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Hagar Delest wrote: if the votes are reset, I'll take it as a huge setback for the users decisions Resetting

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Joe Schaefer
Weir robw...@apache.org To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 11:25 AM Subject: Re: A question about existing practices On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.net wrote: Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Andrea Pescetti

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On 3/20/13, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Hagar Delest wrote: if the votes are reset, I'll take it as a huge setback for the users decisions Resetting votes does not make sense. There is a limit on how many

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Donald Whytock
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I was curious to check my intuition on this. So with a bit of effort I was able to get the following data out of Bugzilla, showing the yearly percentage of enhancement or feature issue types have had at least one vote. So it

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I was curious to check my intuition on this. So with a bit of effort I was able to get the following data out of Bugzilla, showing the yearly

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Donald Whytock
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Now, if we had a way to get the detailed counts on issues, and do this over time, then we could find a way of highlighting trending issues, e.g., those that have recently been getting more votes, or more comments. (The number

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Hagar Delest
Top post. Since it's rather clear that there will never be any agreement about this, why doesn't PMC start a [Vote]? This topic is eating energy for nothing. There is no point arguing furthermore. If I understand correctly the problem (even if it was not exactly the initial point from Jörg),

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net wrote: Top post. Since it's rather clear that there will never be any agreement about this, why doesn't PMC start a [Vote]? This topic is eating energy for nothing. There is no point arguing furthermore. If I understand

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Donald Whytock
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: My take away from the thread was that the preference is not to do anything, and in effect continue to ignore the votes. Whether they are reset or ignored is immaterial to me. I'll just work on better and more accurate ways

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Hagar Delest
Le 20/03/2013 22:03, Rob Weir a écrit : My take away from the thread was that the preference is not to do anything, and in effect continue to ignore the votes. Whether they are reset or ignored is immaterial to me. I'll just work on better and more accurate ways of getting user feedback, that

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: My take away from the thread was that the preference is not to do anything, and in effect continue to ignore the votes. Whether they are reset or

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: My take away from the thread was that the preference is not to do anything, and in

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-19 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
. The title of the tread is A question about existing practices. I think the facts are quite clear. If we have many 10 year old untouched BZ issues then fixing these issues is not part of our existing practice, whether you define that as mandatory, voluntary or whatever. No problem. Practice is what we

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-19 Thread David Gerard
On 19 March 2013 01:21, Guenter Marxen guenter.mar...@googlemail.com wrote: I always have accepted, that the lack of ressources/developers prevents to solve some/many issues in time, but I could hardly accept, that old stuff in bugzilla is reset/deleted and hence forgotten. I think, that some

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-19 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 9:21 PM, Guenter Marxen guenter.mar...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, Am 18.03.2013 19:05, schrieb Dave Fisher: There is no consensus here to eliminate or reset the votes. Some who are more in touch with users have stated that it would be harmful. I trust their judgement.

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-19 Thread RGB ES
2013/3/19 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 9:21 PM, Guenter Marxen guenter.mar...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, Am 18.03.2013 19:05, schrieb Dave Fisher: There is no consensus here to eliminate or reset the votes. Some who are more in touch with users have stated that

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-19 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:19 AM, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/3/19 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 9:21 PM, Guenter Marxen guenter.mar...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, Am 18.03.2013 19:05, schrieb Dave Fisher: There is no consensus here to eliminate or reset

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-19 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:19 AM, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/3/19 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 9:21 PM, Guenter Marxen guenter.mar...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, Am 18.03.2013 19:05,

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-19 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 3/19/13 5:04 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:19 AM, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/3/19 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 9:21 PM, Guenter Marxen guenter.mar...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, Am 18.03.2013 19:05, schrieb Dave Fisher: There is no

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-19 Thread Guenter Marxen
Hi, I have a little bit the impression, that Rob and Jürgen are not understanding, what is meant. There is no demand, that special issues shouldt be resolved asap. There is no demand, to give a date or release, when the issue is resolved. There is only the wish, issues not to reset or to

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-18 Thread Jörg Schmidt
-Original Message- From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Sorry, I don't mean to say you did anything wrong. Not at all. But I do believe that there are only a small number real obligations for what kinds of issues we absolutely must address in the code: 1) We must respond

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-18 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 3/17/13 10:13 PM, Hagar Delest wrote: Any attempt to reset the votes would mean that once more, high scores are just ignored. Of course, nobody would browse the whole list of existing bugs, even to recast their own votes. So reseting the votes would only lead to forget about old bugs or

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-18 Thread Jörg Schmidt
-Original Message- From: Jürgen Schmidt [mailto:jogischm...@gmail.com] This would be a very interesting approach that of course is indeed not completely new. If we wouldn't have useful patches in BZ I personally would of course support such an approach. Having a clean and fresh BZ

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-18 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi, sorry, for top-posting, but I have a general remark. From my point of view the discussion on this thread went into the wrong direction. I think Jörg just mentioned issue 3959 as an _example_ for feedback from users regarding feature requests via Bugzilla votes. I also think that Jörg

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-18 Thread Jörg Schmidt
-Original Message- From: Oliver-Rainer Wittmann [mailto:orwittm...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 11:41 AM To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: A question about existing practices Hi, sorry, for top-posting, but I have a general remark. From my point

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 7:03 AM, Jörg Schmidt joe...@j-m-schmidt.de wrote: -Original Message- From: Oliver-Rainer Wittmann [mailto:orwittm...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 11:41 AM To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: A question about existing practices Hi

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-18 Thread Jörg Schmidt
From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] A promise to do what? The opinion of the user to be taken seriously because you have asked him to speak his mind. But a feature request? This is an opinion of our users. It should be important to us. I see zero obligation, legal, [...],

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-18 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 3/18/13 1:49 PM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] A promise to do what? The opinion of the user to be taken seriously because you have asked him to speak his mind. But a feature request? This is an opinion of our users. It should be important

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-18 Thread Rob Weir
mean: es kommt auf den Tonfall an mit dem wir öffentlich etwas sagen) moral I think so. It's about respect for what we bring to our users, because it is a fundamental difference between what we need to do and what we should do so voluntarily. The title of the tread is A question about

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-18 Thread Jörg Schmidt
of the tread is A question about existing practices. I think the facts are quite clear. If we have many 10 year old untouched BZ issues then fixing these issues is not part of our existing practice, whether you define that as mandatory, voluntary or whatever. No problem. Practice is what we do

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-18 Thread RGB ES
for using AOO. Sounds fine for me. The title of the tread is A question about existing practices. I think the facts are quite clear. If we have many 10 year old untouched BZ issues then fixing these issues is not part of our existing practice, whether you define that as mandatory, voluntary

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-18 Thread Rob Weir
the source of ideas that make it into the product. Thank you for using AOO. Sounds fine for me. The title of the tread is A question about existing practices. I think the facts are quite clear. If we have many 10 year old untouched BZ issues then fixing these issues is not part of our

RE: A question about existing practices

2013-03-18 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
in the manner of WordPerfect. -Original Message- From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 06:13 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: A question about existing practices On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Jörg Schmidt joe...@j-m-schmidt.de wrote: From: Rob Weir

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-18 Thread Rob Weir
, 2013 06:13 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: A question about existing practices On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Jörg Schmidt joe...@j-m-schmidt.de wrote: From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] A promise to do what? The opinion of the user to be taken seriously because you

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-18 Thread RGB ES
suggestions seriously, and user suggestions are often the source of ideas that make it into the product. Thank you for using AOO. Sounds fine for me. The title of the tread is A question about existing practices. I think the facts are quite clear. If we have many 10 year old

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-18 Thread Rob Weir
...@apache.org] I'd say, Thanks for the suggestion. We take all suggestions seriously, and user suggestions are often the source of ideas that make it into the product. Thank you for using AOO. Sounds fine for me. The title of the tread is A question about existing practices. I think

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-18 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] I'd say, Thanks for the suggestion. We take all suggestions seriously, and user suggestions are often the source of ideas that make it into the product. Thank you for using AOO. Sounds fine for me. The title of the tread is A question about existing

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-18 Thread Dave Fisher
@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: A question about existing practices On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Jörg Schmidt joe...@j-m-schmidt.de wrote: From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] A promise to do what? The opinion of the user to be taken seriously because you have asked him to speak his

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-18 Thread Dave Fisher
] I'd say, Thanks for the suggestion. We take all suggestions seriously, and user suggestions are often the source of ideas that make it into the product. Thank you for using AOO. Sounds fine for me. The title of the tread is A question about existing practices. I think the facts are quite

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dave Fisher wrote: There is no consensus here to eliminate or reset the votes. Some who are more in touch with users have stated that it would be harmful. I trust their judgement. Indeed. No reasons to elaborate further. We have votes in Bugzilla; we can only keep them and, in case we want to

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-18 Thread Guenter Marxen
Hi, Am 18.03.2013 19:05, schrieb Dave Fisher: There is no consensus here to eliminate or reset the votes. Some who are more in touch with users have stated that it would be harmful. I trust their judgement. as a longtime OpenOffice-user (since StarWriter 2.0), I think that in this case,

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-17 Thread Hagar Delest
Le 14/03/2013 12:41, Rob Weir a écrit : I'm not sure votes from 2002 are the most accurate way of determining what users want. For example, I think we'd agree that the most-critical issue in 3.4.1 is the profile-related crash. But the Bugzilla issue for this has received *zero* votes:

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-17 Thread Hagar Delest
Any attempt to reset the votes would mean that once more, high scores are just ignored. Of course, nobody would browse the whole list of existing bugs, even to recast their own votes. So reseting the votes would only lead to forget about old bugs or old RFE. Have office suites really evolved

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-17 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2013-03-17 8:32 AM Rob Weir wrote: I'm sorry that the troglodytes don't like that. That is a very insulting comment. Why do you have to make derogatory comments to people who disagree with your opinion? Where did you get you Masters in alienating people? --

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Hagar Delest wrote: if the votes are reset, I'll take it as a huge setback for the users decisions Resetting votes does not make sense. There is a limit on how many bugs a user can vote for and votes can be reallocated, so it isn't necessarily true that an old bug has more votes just because

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net wrote: Any attempt to reset the votes would mean that once more, high scores are just ignored. Of course, nobody would browse the whole list of existing bugs, even to recast their own votes. So reseting the votes would only

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Jörg Schmidt joe...@j-m-schmidt.de wrote: From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Developers work on what they want to work on. This is not a problem. Most developers on the project today have their own list of items they want to work on. That is fine.

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-16 Thread Hagar Delest
Le 14/03/2013 15:10, Rob Weir a écrit : But if only a small minority of users know about voting, and we have a large collection of ancient votes, then the votes are less meaningful and relevant. That's my main concern. I don't believe that the vote counts necessarily reflect current reality.

A question about existing practices

2013-03-14 Thread Jörg Schmidt
Hello, By a request in the forum (http://de.openoffice.info/viewtopic.php?f=1t=61365), I get the information, the Issue #3959 was not implemented since 2002, although he has already received 355 votes. (Note: the implementation of the issues is not particularly important to me, I personally

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:56 AM, Jörg Schmidt joe...@j-m-schmidt.de wrote: Hello, By a request in the forum (http://de.openoffice.info/viewtopic.php?f=1t=61365), I get the information, the Issue #3959 was not implemented since 2002, although he has already received 355 votes. (Note: the

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-14 Thread Jörg Schmidt
But it might be a valuable source of feedback, among other sources. So maybe some kind of (a little bit) bond? In this respect, we agree that the desire for feedback only makes sense if one is willing to consider this feedback. (Please, this is not an accusation, because I'm sure the

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Jörg Schmidt joe...@j-m-schmidt.de wrote: But it might be a valuable source of feedback, among other sources. So maybe some kind of (a little bit) bond? In this respect, we agree that the desire for feedback only makes sense if one is willing to consider this