Hi Michael, Thanks, mostly agree with your thoughts, with two comments...
On 10/3/2014 6:55 AM, Michael Meeks <[email protected]> wrote: > B. It is true that there is a sense in which large corporate > users of LibreOffice capture a lot of benefit and cost saving > from that - and a great way to contribute back is to help > fund someone to represent your interests in the development > community - by writing regression tests for your pet features > and being present in the discussions. > + arriving after the fact and complaining doesn't work. 1. Some people (like me) are of limited skills. Setting up an entire automated build/test environment is simply way beyond my capability. The best I can do is download installable builds and simply test them by using them. I'm happy to do this, but hopefully you recognize that it is basically impossible for someone to test all or even most of the features that they use on a daily basis, and it would be very easy to miss something. > > C. Anything is possible, don't assume that because it is > 'broken' today, it will not be fixed tomorrow. Please don't > assume that because it is difficult a volunteer won't fix it > I know volunteers of amazing skill and tenacity nailing > horrible bugs left/right =) 2. There is a huge difference between: a) bugs that are directly introduced by a specific developer while working on a new feature or a specific bug, and b) old pre-existing/legacy code/bugs that current developers had nothing to do with. Meaning - a developer should be responsible for the code they write, including fixing bugs when they are found *without* resorting to "'patches welcome' or 'pay someone to fix it'" type responses in the bug reports (or on this list) - the latter only being appropriate for: a) new feature/enhancement requests, and/or b) old pre-existing/legacy code/bugs If the vast majority of the developers don't agree with this principle, and in fact believe that they should be able to just commit code for something, then go on their merry way and/or respond with the "'patches welcome' or 'pay someone to fix it'" responses, then I guess we are so far apart philosophically that I should just stfu and go away. -- 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
