Re: [Libreoffice] Diffs for removing bogus comments

Hi David,


On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 21:17 +1100, David Hobley wrote:
> Love what you are planning to do with Libreoffice. I have felt for a long time that with the 
> previous management of OpenOffice that crucial issues were not being addressed (i.e the lack of 
> support for Excel column referencing A:A) and that the releases have been getting slower and more 
> buggy over time. Having migrated my organisation (~60 people, small manufacturing company in 
> Australia) to using OpenOffice 3 years ago, it is getting to a point where I was thinking I might 
> need to start looking at migrating back to MS Office). Having you guys come along with a new 
> philosophy will help me hold out or a while to see how things are going. 

Cool! It's great to have you on board.

> So; don't want to just complain, so I have submitted some patches (only minor comment related 
> patches as per the wiki Contribute page) via bugzilla - 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30593
>
> I hope I haven't misunderstood anything - the wiki page mentioned: 
>
> // --> OD 2008-01-08 #newlistlevelattrs# 
>
> comments of that form. Where there were comments of that form, but referencing an OpenOffice 
> issue number with the #i prefix, I removed the extraneous text, but kept the #i component where 
> there was explanatory text to go along with it. Not certain if that was the intent or not. I also 
> removed comments that contained no useful text within them.
>
> Obviously all these changes are released under LGPLv3+.

The patches are now pushed and the bug report marked as resolved.

> I was also unclear whether I should be subscribed to this list or not. This particular address is 
> not mentioned in the Contact wiki page, so currently I am not subscribed to it.

You should definitely be subscribed to that list... at least to read
what's going on.

Regards,

-- 
Cédric Bosdonnat
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OOo Eclipse Integration developer
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