I would say the code is "getting better". I've only been on the project a few months so I can't say how much progress we've made but I know that we still have a build time of 4+ hours which says a lot. The code is still a bit tricky, not enough comments left by previous developers, etc...
Also, I would argue that "our project" (meaning LibO, we don't use LO ;) ), is quite small still. We have a very small team of developers who routinely (>1 patch per week) contribute, a slightly bigger team that submits at least one patch a month, and then a couple hundred that have submitted 1 or 2 patches in the course of several months (this includes myself ). We could probably double our number of developers doing 1 patch or so a month and still be in need for quite a few more. Regards, Joel On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi :) > Just one thing. LO is not particularly small and it's definitely not > new. The original code was called Star Office and was developed around a > decade or so ago. After a couple of years Sun took it on and called it > OpenOffice.org and then TDF took the code and called it LibreOffice. So > there are probably chunks of the code and ways of doing things that date > back to the last century! Hence why you still see references to "soffice" > if you look in your task-manager or systems processes. > > Now that a lot of the old irrelevant comments and stuff have been almost > cleaned out (allegedly) it might be possible to focus more on streamlining > and using more modern approaches in some areas. It should definitely be > easier to find your way around the code and i think that is going to have > some big impacts on the effectiveness of any work done by the devs. The > Pita stuff is nearly done. Time for some fun! (or have i got it wrong > again?) > Regards from > Tom :) > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Joel Madero <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Friday, 19 October 2012, 14:53 > > *Subject:* Re: [libreoffice-users] ... not working ... > > On 10/18/2012 11:11 PM, rost52 wrote: > > This is a very interesting information. I am not really surprised by the > ration indicated here. I exepcte finding the cause of a bug takes much more > time than final fix. I am grateful to the dev because I know myself how > difficult it is to find a bug in a complicated SW. > > > > Question: What means: > > - bot lists > > -FDO > In IRC (chat client) we have automatic robots that routinely (ten's of > times a day) say what patches have been submitted to gerrit (the service we > use to keep our code). Every time a patch is submitted the robot (bot) > spits out an automated message saying that a person (with a name) has > submitted a patch and explains what that patch does. > > FDO = free desktop . org (f d o). Ans is where you can report bugs > pertaining to the libreoffice project. If you want to see a list of > confirmed bugs look here -- you'll see immediately how overwhelmed a small > project can get: > > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&list_id=147729&product=LibreOffice&query_format=advanced&order=opendate%2Cchangeddate%2Cbug_status%2Cpriority%2Cassigned_to%2Cbug_id&limit=0 > > That is 3,956 bugs and climbing (there are an additional 1,200 or so that > are reported but not confirmed yet...the QA team confirms the bugs so > developers can focus on coding) > > > Regards, > Joel > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+ > [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 > > > > -- *Joel Madero* LibO QA Volunteer [email protected] -- 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
