"Christoph Schäfer" wrote:
Wow, what a genuinely polite reply! Do you behave like this at home or at work?
Hi Christoph, at the very least, your above comment carries quite a bit of what you were complaining about others. Let's all try to be nice & friendly. Just to put some perspective to the original request, the LibreOffice project tried pretty hard, from day one, to avoid creating barriers. Therefore the default, visceral reaction to any such request to erect walls will be a 'no' (or a 'no, why?' if you're lucky). As such, with the responses that you got, you see that you're challenging a culture here. So even if your request has merit, expect more work & convincing necessary than a simple email. People are like that.
In other words, I and the friendly people who donated from their backups want to help you to fix YOUR bugs.
This is much appreciated!
We are no beggars who want you to solve our non-existing problems but do like what DLP/LibreOffice is doing and want to support it. Most people who sent me their test files probably don't use LibreOffice (yet), and if they do, they certainly don't need its graphics/DTP import filters. They do know, however, that other projects like Inkscape and Scribus use them.
Ok, point taken.
A suggestion from my side would be to grant DLP hackers "Developer" status on Scribus's bugtracker (bugs.scribus.net) for DTP and vector formats, so I can upload the test files over there as "Private". As "Developers" they would have access to the test files. The status would only be granted if one of the DLP leads (e.g. Fridrich Štrba or David Tardon) can confirm that the person is indeed an active DLP developer.
That to me sounds like a nice, quick, no-brainer solution to the problem. :) Cheers, -- Thorsten
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