Hi Werner, This regression has already been discussed here, with essentially the same result (fix it yourself, pay someone else to fix it, or shut up about it)...
On 10/1/2014 7:13 AM, Werner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tanstaalf, > > In the thread "LibreOffice Still" you made a very important point, > however it has absolutely nothing to do with the main point of the > discussion on how to name versions and I just by chance noted it. > > You then might have a chance of having it dealt with. > > Werner > > P.S. > Just a LO user who sometimes reads this list but just about every time > get frustrated with it due to the misuse of threads! > > > > On 10/1/2014 12:27, Tanstaafl wrote: >> <rant> >> Charles, fyi, in our office, we are stuck on 4.1.6 because of a major >> regression introduced in 4.2 that is still there today. >> >> When our first user reported this after I started updating everyone (at >> about 4.2.4), so I had to revert them all (I'd gotten maybe 20 >> workstations updated that weekend). >> >> I kept promising my boss that 'they will have to fix this, it is a >> regression and they treat these seriously' - but here we are, 8 months >> later, and we still cannot upgrade. Because everyone found about about >> this, a few very vocal users in our office took this opportunity to >> start lobbying (again) for replacing Libreoffice with Microsoft Office, >> and it looks like they are going to win this time. I know it is only 70 >> seats, and you probably don't really care, but I do. The fact is, I >> cannot even recommend Libreoffice on new clients in good conscience, if >> the response to a very serious regression bug report is along the lines >> of 'well, you can just fix it yourself, it is free open source after >> all'. >> >> *Anytime* a long standing feature is totally ripped out and replaced >> with something else that causes a major regression, it should be an >> absolute top priority to fix it in the very next release. In fact, I >> would say that it should be a part of the agreement that any contributor >> signs, that if they are the one responsible for a regression like this, >> they are *required* to fix it asap. >> >> So, for us, 4.2 and 4.3 are *both* unstable - meaning, we *cannot use >> them*, because they lack a very basic capability that we have relied on >> since, oh, I don't know... version 1? >> >> In case you were wondering, it is the new 'Inline Fields' functionality, >> that when introduced, broke the ability to paste into them, and the bug >> is still there today, in 4.3.2. >> </rant> -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
