On 10/13/2011 01:26 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: > Le 13/10/11 03:23, NoOp a écrit : > > Hi all, > > >> >> I like this part/comment: >> >>> Rainer Bielefeld 2011-10-09 23:52:53 PDT >> ... >>> >>> Yes, it's dataloss, but are there really many users who still need .sxd? >> >> Now that's the spirit! >> > > > Just so that you all know, the engineering committe decided that legacy > filter _export_ support for the old StarOffice formats (SXS, SXW, SXD, > etc) would be phased out in the current 3.5 development tree (in fact, I > think it has already been deactivated). > > Read support is still in, but will be optional for the build process, > i.e. dependent on a compile-time option. > > What might have happened in 3.4.3 is that a patch from 3.5 got > back-ported (by mistake ?). > > The T/ESC (technical/engineering steering committee) make public the > minutes of its meetings (posted on the wiki). If users want to know > what's going on, it is in the minutes of these meetings that they will > find out what's happening to the code.
Link please. And regardless of that (if correct), I find the commend by Rainer Bielefeld on the bug to be unacceptable and disturbing. Rainer is part of the QA Team & seems to head up the bug hunting seesion efforts: <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/QA_Team> <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/IRCSessions#Monthly_Bug_Hunting_Sessions> It's disturbing (to me) that Rainer dismisses the data loss altogether after acknowledging it. So if the QA team consider a 'who cares?' attitude towards data loss, one an only wonder if the developers do the same... -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
