On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Jörg Schmidt <joe...@j-m-schmidt.de> wrote: >> From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] > >> Developers work on what they want to work on. This is not a problem. >> Most developers on the project today have their own list of items they >> want to work on. That is fine. Maybe we get developers who don't >> have a preference and would be happy to look at 10 year old feature >> requests instead? That would be nice, of course. But then again, if >> it hasn't happened in a decade then I wonder what makes it happen now? > > You repeated here things that we all know and respect. > > But, we here at AOO also a community, and each of us doing the work he can do > best, or would like to make it. > > But what should be anything wrong if I (I started the thread here) remind us > all of the AOO only a good product will work if all aspects AND mutually > share experience or if some of us ask others to help? >
Sorry, I don't mean to say you did anything wrong. Not at all. But I do believe that there are only a small number real obligations for what kinds of issues we absolutely must address in the code: 1) We must respond to security vulnerabilities, if any are found 2) We must respond to any legal or licensing issues in the code, if any are found If we fail on the above, then the responsible thing would be for the ASF to shut us down, right? But beyond that there are no absolutes. Sure, being responsive to users is important. We do that in many ways. There are tradeoffs. All of our time necessarily adds up to 100%. How much focus we put on adding features versus adding platforms versus fixing bugs, etc., will be determined by many factors, and guided by many sources of information. Votes are one source of user preferences, but not the only and not necessarily the best. For example, Windows 64-bit support would be wonderful, though I don't think there were many votes for this from 2002, right? With 40 million downloads, it is important to take a broad view of things, and not be too worried about the opinions of 300 votes from a decade ago. We need to put it all in perspective. -Rob > It was not my goal of developers to demand anything, it was just my goal to > point out that there are certain problems that can solve only certain people > effectively. > > > *Maybe there are also problems that may help here (eg in Germany in public > relations or in the care of AOO-users in public administration or business), > then I will gladly do.* > > *Questions for the bug-fixing but I need the help of the developers and their > understanding that sometimes bugfixing, more important for our mutual success > as more new features.* > > *That was my message, my request, nothing else.* > > > > Greetings, > Jörg > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
