Hi,
Tom Chilton wrote:
Sorry I didn't mean to upset anyone, it was an observation from a user,
whether it is factually correct or not wasn't the point. It is the way
some users feel, which I think is important.
I think you have a point when you say communicating because to me it
seems that communication may sometimes be the problem (I think this is a
more effective way of my saying that the community has an agenda. By
community I mean the people actually writing the code to make OOo work).
To pick an example issue 24969 has been open for at least three years,
has 221 votes and the milestone is still OO later. I don't think the
user is being listened to as much as they could be.
Like I said I know this is a pretty black and white view on things and
that the OOo project is a fantastic work in progress and I don't want to
put anyone who works on it down. I also realise that bug fixing is more
important than enhancements for the most part.
In the spirit of actually doing something to help rather than sitting
back and criticising (everyone's a critic as they say), is there any
way, other than the 'developers' viewing this list, of communicating
what people ask for on the mailing list to the people who can affect
change? As we all know the issue tracking system leaves some users
rather confused and although it works, maybe some of the issues are
slightly underrepresented in terms of number of votes compared to the
amount of traffic they produce as many people can't or can't be bothered
to vote/file an issue.
Anyway I'm going on and on and ovviously have too much time on my hands.
If there is any way to achieve the above then please let me know. (I
suppose one way would be to add a comment on the issue each time a
message about that issue is received on the mailing list with a link to
the message).
Tom
(oh and I see from issue 8938 that the wps thing is nearing completion :) )
[...]
Thanks; to treat your words appropriately, I must read them more than
once ... (therefore: no direct answer to all above at moment).
Regarding issue 8938 (thanks, I didn't know it) -
'import/export filters for Microsoft Works (.wdb, .wps and .wks)'
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8938
- there were really great efforts during March 2007 ... :-)
(I'll see whether I've still a vote for it).
It seems (I still have to read it again) to be connected with
'libwps:
a Microsoft Works file word processor format import filter library'
http://libwps.sourceforge.net/
( see also 'libwps notes' - December 24, 2006
http://libwps.sourceforge.net/libwps_notes.html )
I think, it's a busy ongoing project with 'the wps thing' ...
Manfred
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