Fair enough. I guess that belief was a remnant from the Sun/Openoffice days.
My apologies for a huge, incorrect assumption. Also, I just realized there is a distinction that I have been making, but that may have been missed and so may be causing a disconnect. That distinction is, code that someone writes and contributes - like, for example, this new 'Inline editing' feature for Input fields' - vs pre-existing/old legacy code and/or bugs that is/was already there, long before any new volunteers come along. In most of the projects I use and interact with, bugs are taken very seriously, and fixed as soon as they are verified (after being reported), with a 'thank you very much for reporting this!' response... It is *only* enhancements/feature requests that get the *very* valid and legitimate 'patches welcome!' and/or 'we will happily add that feature for you for $##### bucks.' responses... Libreoffice, and Mozilla Thunderbird are the only projects I use and interact with on a daily basis that seem to act totally contrary to this, and constantly play the 'fix it yerself/pay someone to fix it for you' cards. With Thunderbird, it is really only because they simply don't have enough manpower (2 or 3 devs for the entire project, I believe), and they are dealing with a ton of pre-existing/old legacy code/bugs, and I totally get it. I also totally get it with respect to the same code in Libreoffice, and from what I understand, that it is a huge monster of a code base. But all of that is really orthogonal to my main point... Software developers, whether volunteer or not, should have *some* level of responsibility and obligation on their part to fix bugs they themselves introduce into code they write. I know I would if I were one, and I know I do for anything that I do build. They write it - they should own it. I simply don't understand how anyone could believe otherwise. On 10/2/2014 5:57 PM, Joel Madero <[email protected]> wrote: > Um - well two points: > 1. None of the paid developers are paid by TDF - we have 0 paid > developers on staff. > 2. Most commits are still done by volunteers and many are done by paid > developers on their free time (ie. when they are volunteering). -- 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
