I am talking about collaboration in the sense of mutual support. > I don't see what the value is in highlighting this mishap and it's unfair > to basically shame people about a backporting omission that happened two > years ago.
I'm not accusing anyone, I'm reporting the facts, and I've never complained about having to wait six months for these new features. An oversight can happen to anyone... > What I see as unhealthy is your comments to a code reviewer in patch 181159 after a security > vulnerability was noticed... This is a very abbreviated reading of patch 181159, because unfortunately my fix required implementation in a dead portion of LibreOffice code. I spent a lot of time detecting it and was unable to make my reviewers understand it. Curiously, this was never acknowledged but was subsequently corrected. See: - Avoid exception when reading nil NetAccess value <https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/183268> - configmgr: Let XRegistryKey::getLongValue return boolean values, too <https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/183269> This time, we can attribute this not to an oversight but rather to a misunderstanding. In any case, in the end I found myself all alone and really felt like I had wasted my time. So yes, I may have gotten a little carried away, and I apologize to the person concerned and apparently they don't hold it against me and I thank them for that. :-) I also want to clarify that I have never insulted a reviewer. So far, I'm willing to believe it was just bad luck (an oversight, a misunderstanding) that prevented me from being very efficient in publishing my improvements and you from giving me the support I was hoping for. Because as far as I'm concerned I can't do better, I'm already at full capacity. By the way, if you really want to collaborate, please backport Java instrumentation support to LibreOffice 25.2. I'm really the only user of it. see: TDF#167071 <https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167071> . Le mer. 18 juin 2025 à 15:40, Noel Grandin <noelgran...@gmail.com> a écrit : > Hi > > I'm sorry you found it hard. LibreOffice is a pretty tough place to get > significant changes deployed. > > But don't give up, you're doing great! You already managed to land two > patches in pretty tricky areas, places most people fear to tread :-) > > > I'm asking you for exactly the same thing: please give me a little > space... and give me a mentor... > > Sure, we're happy to help. But some times, there are bigger things at > play. Release cycles are longer and tougher for a project this size. > > Alas, a lot of your hacking is in places that have very (or none) people > that can help. > > And this is a volunteer organisation, there is no large company behind it > that can "allocate anyone" to you. > > But if you hang out on IRC, people are generally wlling to answer any > questions (assuming someone is around who knows the answer, that is not > always the case in a project this size). > > Hope this helps, and keep up the good work. > >
