Am Dienstag, 4. Juni 2013 um 22:00 schrieb Hagar Delest: > Le 04/06/2013 20:27, Juergen Schmidt a écrit : > > instead of complaining and requesting you could have joined the development > > and could have worked on one or more of your addressed issues. This is the > > way how open source works. The code is available and you can help to > > improve it. > > > This is the standard reply of the devs community very often. a reply to an extension developer > Please remember that OpenOffice is a rather specific project with a user base > made of basic users, not developers. This is not a toy for geeks who want to > implement cool things. So if the users are really disappointed because they > are not taken care of, they will just leave and go to LibreOffice for example. > >
you don't have to repeat this, I know it and we normally take all kind of feedback serious. It's simply that we have many things to do... > > Whatever the technical reason is, not taking into account the basic user > aspect is dangerous. There were ideas about having a transition phase but > nothing has really been made about that AFAIK. some pro active collaboration of extension developers would be welcome. We don't simple ignore but we can't do everything. > > > > > If voices like ours dare say so against the dev community, it's because we > think that the users deserve a minimal care to keep them interested in the > product. I doubt they would ever engage in such a discussion. So please don't > forget about them, even if you don't hear their voices apart ours. I agree and I expect the necessary collaboration from the extension developers. If they collaborate our users will be less affected. > > NB: has a communication been made to the extension authors asking them to > update their extension with the detailed changes to be made? > What is the idea for the moment? Hope that they will do that by themselves > because they certainly monitor the dev mailing list? > > I hope it will be addressed appropriately. I am not responsible for everything ;-) The facts are known and if somebody things it is not addressed yet just start working on it and don't wait that somebody else does it. Well I am getting tired to repeat this again and again. Nobody should expect that others do what's necessary, Just do it yourself -> it's a community project. Juergen > > Hagar > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
