Re: [Libreoffice] 14 files in libreoffice git source flagged as trojans

Ha, thanks for the warm welcome! What a difference :-)

So, my pet peeve issue is a Calc bug/feature request first filed in *2003*
-- and is in the OOo bugzilla at
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=10864 .  I actually filed one
of the 12 dupes around 2006. The comment thread is pretty depressing.
 Apparently not low-hanging fruit or this would have been fixed ages ago
right?  It's a  frustrating UI issue for users who are accustomed to Excel.

I always wondered if there was some dark reason this issue kept getting
backburned when the project was still in OOo.

Anyway, I've done plenty of C++ and UI development projects so I'm not
afraid of tackling it, but the codebase is pretty impenetrable for someone
just starting out on this project.  Pointers welcome!

..Billy


On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:47 AM, Michael Meeks <michael.meeks@novell.com>wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 13:52 -0700, Billy Charlton wrote:
> > I just did my first git clone of the core libreoffice codebase, hoping
> > to poke around to see if I could start helping out with some
> > bugfixing.
>
>         Cool ! :-) what bug are you most interested in ? and/or have you
> grokked the easy hacks ? prolly the best way to get into the code is to
> ask questions and meet with the hackers on #libreoffice-dev on
> irc.freenode.net - if you're not familiar with IRC, it is really worth
> getting into it - for interactive discussion & mentoring.
>
>        There is a lot to do of course - one of the things that came up
> recently was the idea of getting:
>
>        http://code.google.com/p/include-what-you-use/
>
>        going, but that's prolly going to be quite a bit more difficult on
> Windows than Linux (many things are sadly).
>
>        Anyhow - great to have you around & thanks for the report, looks
> like
> we'll get a nice fix to hide the (apparent) badness in those files -
> which we use as regression tests.
>
>        All the best,
>
>                Michael.
>
> --
> michael.meeks@suse.com  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot