[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Additionally, this list does not have a home page (that I could find)
allowing member options such as "No mail", an option I would have
selected because most topics have no relevance for me. I read one post to
this list in which a list member describes how he periodically
unsubsrcibes when going on vacation, just because there is not a "No
Mail" option. I sense that the same problems that plague commercial
software prevail in the OpenOffice.org developer community.
Sandy
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There has been a lot of discussion along these lines, and maybe the
necessary underlying structure of the current list management
capabilities will be modified at some point. For now, the main
alternatives are to unsubscribe/resubscribe, modify filters to discard
messages until they are wanted again, or use the gmane newsgroups to
follow the discussions.
Two kinds of problems are common to both OOo developers and to
commercial software developers: the need to prioritize where effort is
expended, and the need to make decisions based on the information
available at the time development is underway, often including knowledge
of the existing structure that makes some changes far more difficult
than they appear to an outside observer. In both cases, this will leave
some, or even many, people's views out of consideration. But OOo has
mechanisms like this list, the various forums, and the issue reporting
system to express those opinions -- and actually be heard, and often
make a difference. In my experience, there is absolutely no comparison
between the responsiveness of OOo (and other open source projects) and
any commercial development.
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