Re: [libreoffice-users] Frustrated Base Users / Errors in Base 3.3 (OO 3.2 work beautifully)

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Hi Tony,

Thanks for sharing your findings and experience (including your work!).
You're doing an important part of the job to fix such issues: reporting
them and bringing attention to them.

I posted separately about the Ubuntu Bug day coming up, it's a great
opportunity to learn more about the process and get involved. Reporting
bugs upstream is also an important part of that work. Then when
developers get to it, the goal is to have a clear idea of what needs to
be done.

An important next step (after acknowledging such important problems
exist in Base) is to make a list and one by one try to reproduce and
confirm such issues in a consistent manner, then file individual bug
reports for those ASAP. See this post for details on how to join the effort:
http://www.ubuntu-user.com/Online/Blogs/Amber-Graner-You-in-Ubuntu/You-re-Invited-This-Week-s-Ubuntu-Bug-Day-LibreOffice-and-OpenOffice

If we wait for "someone to be available" to work on such issues, when
that day comes such people may just have nothing to do if the list is
empty ;)

Cheers,

Fabián

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On 11-02-08 07:13 AM, Tony Smith wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Firstly, I'd like to say that I don't completely agree with Andreas
> Säger's, post
>
> http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/msg02064.html
>
> Firstly, I have been using OpenOffice from pre version 1 days, and I
> have to say, when Base reached the 3.2 release it was very good, in fact
> 3.1 & 3.2 versions of Base are very good, and if you want to see what
> can be achieved with Base, have a look here
>
> http://ostdb.no-ip.org/
>
> It's a project I have been working on for a while, using MySQL as a
> back-end. Feel free to download and take the database for a spin, but
> don't do it in LO 3.3, because Base is severely broken in 3.3, I really
> wish it wasn't, but alas it is.
>
> To read through what I've worked through to test the various
> combinations of LO and operating system / hardware combinations, read my
> feedback to ubuntu bug 709778
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/709778
>
> What makes the issues with Base 3.3 worse is that there is no
> consistency in the bugs, as you will see by reading my posts to the
> above bug report. NONE of these issues occurred in OO 3.2. This
> unfortunately reflects really badly on the Open Source community
> altogether, surely cannot the coding for Base be regressed to how it was
> in 3.2, until the changes that were attempted in 3.3 can be more
> thoroughly tested.
>
> Please, I may not have the skills to be able to contribute to the source
> of these projects, but I do my utmost to promote what was OO, and was
> going to do so with LO, but I'm afraid introducing users to OO/LO3.3 may
> have a negative impact. To top this all off, I was so looking forward to
> LibreOffice, but until these hither too not present errors in Base,
> particulary, are resolved, then I cannot recommend moving to LO.
>
> I really hope somebody is able to fix this, and soon.
>
> Thanks
>
> Tony
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