Many thanks Martin
Just serious word processing, actually.
Is there anywhere we can look at the the results of these elections?
Have no idea how many votes a popular bug would get to put these
figures in context.
As bug reporting is very much an esoteric process, it might be
reasonable to speculate that the votes reflect the desires of the
cognoscenti, which may differ markedly from the ordinary user, who
just endures bugs and does their best to get by, never having heard of
Bugzilla.
Also, am having trouble checking, but is it not the case that you only
have 5 votes anyway. So once you have reported 5, you have no leeway
to have any say in anything else. Maybe if everyone was given 100
votes (or something) the results would better reflect real preferences.
Stay happy
On 25 Apr 2014, at 01:53, Martin Groenescheij wrote:
I agree that this could be a problem for users that go further than
word processing,
You're probably use it for desktop publishing.
If you want that this get more attention you have to pursue other
users to vote for it.
For your information I have added the priorities and votes inline.
For me it looks like only a minority is interested to get this fixed
or they are not aware that they can vote.
Sent from my mobile device.
On 25 Apr 2014, at 12:10 am, [email protected] wrote:
How long does it take to fix a bug, please?
And is there any point in reporting them?
Its great that some of them are getting confirmed now, but even that
has taken several years in some of the examples below - 4 1/2 years
in one. None have been fixed yet. (nb only have public wifi so can't
download the latest beta - sorry).
There are several serious bugs to report - particularly in outline
and template management, while working in metric (which presumably
the vast majority of users do) is a nightmare at present. But doing
so is time consuming, and there seems little point if nothing is
getting fixed, or certainly no urgency if it takes years to do so.
EXAMPLE 1: BUG IN OUTLINE - BUG 98752
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=98752
This was first reported 02 February 2009 but was not confirmed.
It caused me huge problems in 2011 so was reported independently on
the forum (because finding out how to report a bug was so obscure)
and confirmed by Hagar Delest on 01 October 2011 here:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=44287&p=204470&sid=d016d92716a51e5c9d2cf10631ae8b0d
#p204470
Did as required. Nothing happened until 07 August 2013 when Rob
picked it up, which was a very welcome surprise after so long.
This bug has Priority P3 and 2 votes.
EXAMPLE 2: ORGANISING TEMPLATES - BUG 118552
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=118552
First reported 26 October 2011. Confirmed on 03 April 2014. Still
hasn't been fixed.
This bug has Priority P3 and 1 votes.
EXAMPLE 3: UPDATING STYLES - BUG 121785
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121785
Reported 18 Feb 2013. There is a problem with updating styles, which
doesn't behave as stated in help (which covers the topic very badly).
On this one, can't get the problem confirmed, and can't even get a
response.
This bug has Priority P3 and no vote.
EXAMPLE 4 : ICON LABELS BUG 121766
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121766
This one is embarrassing. Undo is labelled 'Can't Undo" and Redo
similarly, and have been since 2007 at least, which must be obvious
to millions of users. Astonishing that no-one has picked it up.
Reported it on 13 February 2013 was confirmed admirably quickly.
Naively, it would seem dead simple to fix - just correcting a couple
of labels - but it slipped through to OpenOffice 4 and is still
there.
This bug has Priority P3 and no vote.
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