Re: 250 USD offer on FreedomSponsor to fix tdf#33082

Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi Tommy,
>
> On Thu, 2015-11-05 at 06:07 +0100, Tommy wrote:
> > I want to inform the developer community that an user offered 250
> > dollars to fix:
> > Bug 33082 - Multiple operations are not tracked as change in change control
> > https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33082
>
>         Hmm. So - just as a hyper-optimistic estimation - implementing change
> tracking for tables, including the file-format support (there is none in
> ODF as such) and so on is the order of a six man month type job: unit
> tests, filter work, core data structure pieces etc.

I'm not a programmer so I had no idea how much effort was needed.
thanks for the info.

>         It is good to have people supporting and offering money for the work -
> but 6 man months is 8*5*4*6 hours -> 960 hours. No idea what you think a
> programmer should earn but $0.26/hr rate is below most estimations ;-)

not a good salary indeed
even those who built the pyramids were paid better :-)

anyway as that user said, anyone is free to add a few bucks to the 
funding campaign


>         Having said that - it is clear that this is an important missing
> feature. In general it would be good to split it into many bugs - some
> of the features are smaller and less problematic.
>
>         HTH !
>
>                 Michael.

bye, Tommy