Re: Including a patch from AOO...

On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 12:07 -0700, bfo wrote:
> There are bug reports on bugs.freedesktop.org imported from AOO which 
> are in RESOLVED FIXED state there. ...

        There are plenty of bugs cross-linked to AOO bugs, many of them FIXED
no doubt on one side or the other. It is certainly clear that we have
fixed many hundreds of bugs - we've been shipping the code-base that
Apache are now based on to end-users for over a year. The milestone we
based from was a beta code-base - it is -inevitable- that there is some
duplication of fixing there. That is sad of course.

> This can impact improving LO quality. Any comments on that?

        In general fixing bugs tends to improve quality :-) so we should do
more of that.

        Having said that - I wrote a length mail explaining the current
situation. No-one should be taking any code from the Apache project
until we have fully re-based on the ALv2 code, under their license.

        That process is ongoing; track it's progress in the ESC minutes. There
will be no lack of clarity / announcement as to when it is complete. It
seems possible that we will also import a (suitably cleaned-up) version
of the Apache svn into a git repository in due course); that should make
it easier to pick fixes across, and of course retain all the history on
both sides for easy comparison. Then I suspect we will want a
-systematic- way of reviewing all future changes and fixes to ensure
that we only pick and test fixes that don't overlap with our existing
work and are appropriate.

        The punch line is that -for-now- it is frustrating, and in the future
life will be much easier.

        Anyway, anyone, please contact me privately if you want to continue
this discussion.

        Thank you,

                Michael.

-- 
michael.meeks@suse.com  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot