Hi :) I am not sure if people are aware but under Sun a lot of bugs just got ignored or left to rot because the aim at that time was stability. If a bug is known about and still exists in a new version then that qualifies as being "stable". Unstable is where you can't rely on long running bugs still being around. If you are not sure whether something has been fixed or not then it really means the thing is unstable. Companies using the program may have written work-around or patches that they applied each time to each new release but if a particular problem had been sorted out in a newer version then should such a company apply their patch or not! So, Sun wanted "stability" so that companies could rely on all the problems being well known.
Hmm, does that sound a tad bitter? I wasn't even around for that. I used Go-oo without even knowing that it wasn't pure OOo for the last couple of years that OOo was under Sun. Before that i was an MS fanboy. Under TDF the main aim has been to declutter all the code, streamline it, remove old outdate comments and translate the remaining ones into English. Also re-writting chunks done in weird languages, such as Java, in order to consolidate it into just 1 language throughout and generally de-spaghettfy it. At the same time they have also managed to add in 'new' functionality to help bring the program out of the late 90's and well into this century. They've also fixed quite a lot of bugs although mostly that has been to try to make it compatible with the latest changes in the MS formats. I think they have done a remarkable job. Now it should be easier to address individuals bugs. Many of which have probably just dropped out due to the de-spaghettifying. You could help by test-driving the latest beta-release each time and adding a comment to your bug-report to let people know that it still exists. if you leave bug-reports until after release then less people will be looking into it. Pre-release catches the attention of the most devs. I don't think it's fair to blame TDF for the failures of Oracle or Sun and it's not fair to assume that just because your pet peeves haven't been sorted by Sun that they are not going to be sorted under TDF. Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Ken Springer <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Sunday, 5 May 2013, 13:49 >Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Paragraph styles > > >On 5/5/13 2:35 AM, Milos Sramek wrote: >> Dear Ken, >> >> could you please post numbers of these bugs here? The topic sounds to be >> interesting >> Thanks >> Milos >> >> Dňa 05.05.2013 00:32, Ken Springer wrote / napísal(a): >>> As I noted in private email, LO still has not assigned two bugs I >>> filed to anyone yet. They are classified a low priority. As I >>> mentioned, the issues are *not* low priority to me, so if they don't >>> want to fix them, I'll pay for a program where the developers do care >>> to fix the low priority issues. > >https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44871 >https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46986 > >Will wonders never cease... The first one has been assigned to someone. > <grin> > >Maybe there's hope after all, as I've got a list from long ago that I >never bothered to file as these were never addressed and assigned, so I >never bothered. > >-- >Ken > >Mac OS X 10.8.3 >Firefox 20.0 >Thunderbird 17.0.5 >LibreOffice 4.0.1.2 > > >-- >To unsubscribe 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 > > > -- To unsubscribe 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
