Um - well two points: 1. None of the paid developers are paid by TDF - we have 0 paid developers on staff. 2. Most commits are still done by volunteers and many are done by paid developers on their free time (ie. when they are volunteering).
On 10/02/2014 12:53 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 10/2/2014 12:04 PM, jonathon <[email protected]> wrote: >> The devs have no idea how people use the product, and thus only test >> a minuscle subset of available features, functions, and >> capabilities. > Relevant and true to an extent and in some cases, certainly, but I'm > sorry, cut/copy/paste functionality with respect to input fields is bare > minimum basic *fundamental* behavior, and 'knowing people will want to > use the fields in such a manner' - well, if a developer truly has such a > limited imagination, then I highly doubt they would make a competent > developer. > > Bigger picture question - which is more reasonable: > > a) expecting an end user to test every, single feature among the > thousands of features provided by Libreoffice, before every single > update, or on every single daily build? > > or > > b) expecting the actual developers who are doing the coding to do at > least some bare, minimum testing of the code that they, themselves are > writing, with respect to the feature(s) said code is affecting? > > Asked another way with respect to this specific issue: > > Which is more reasonable: > > a) expecting an end user to find and discover that one very specific > feature that they use among hundreds (or more) of other features has a bug? > > or > > b) expecting the developer doing the actual coding for a very specific > feature/function, to find a bug with respect to the most basic and > fundamental aspect of said feature? > > The developer *knows* what they are working on, and *knows* what the > basic functionality should be. > > I'm being accused of 'refusing to help' by way of QA, testing, etc. > > Tell me - how are *users* supposed to know that a major feature they > rely on on a daily basis is being replaced? In my opinion, this new > feature (and others like it - especially when it is *replacing* an > *existing* feature - should have been announced right here on the users > list, with requests to test it. > > Another major point being missed here is that we aren't talking about > some obscure bug that only happens under certain circumstances. We are > talking about the inability to paste into input fields, in every case, > on every platform, in every version since 4.2.x. > -- 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
