[libreoffice-users] getting involved and having a say

Hi :)
LibreOffice is excellent and exciting to get involved with.  From the outside it might appear dull 
and boring.  I mean it's "just an office suite" right?  Actually NO.  It deals with issues that 
reach far beyond the obvious as this draft shows ... 
http://www.documentfoundation.org/foundation/

Even with extremely limited or even no former experience (what other sort is there?) the project 
can help you learn programming skills even while producing results that may well get incorporated 
into the final product!!  

Documentation is another good way in to get involved and learn about working with people around the 
world on this curiously interesting project.  There are many other teams that collaborate to get 
the results out there into the real world.

Good luck all and have fun with it!
Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Sun, 11/9/11, NoOp <glgxg@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

From: NoOp <glgxg@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft secret formats?
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Sunday, 11 September, 2011, 23:44

On 09/11/2011 03:15 PM, Spencer Graves wrote:
> NoOp & Dennis:
>
>
>         What is the standard bug reporting procedure for LibreOffice?  I 
> looked at "libreoffice.org" and didn't find anything, but I didn't look 
> too hard.

It's not as easy/apparent to find as one would hope. But:

http://www.libreoffice.org/get-involved/
  http://www.libreoffice.org/get-involved/qa-testers/
   http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugTriage
[Details on How to report LibreOffice Bugs are also available. ]
and finally:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport
IMO that last should be on foremost on the the 'Get Involved' page...
but then I'd have to go over to the web list & complain & then file a
bug report requesting that... :-)


> DENNIS:  NoOp tested one of the problems I reported;  see below.
>
>
> NoOp:  I submitted reproducible examples of two problems to Dennis.
...


> On 9/11/2011 3:09 PM, NoOp wrote:
> > On 09/11/2011 11:06 AM, Spencer Graves wrote:
> > > Another example:
> > >
> > >
> > > 1.  Download
> > > "http://www.cagreens.org/sclara/resources/flyers/noCreditCd-bookmark20110306.odt";.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 2.  Open in LibreOffice 3.4.3.  Save as MS Word 97 *.doc format.
> > >
> > >
> > > 3.  Close, then reopen the *.doc version:  When I did this now under
> > >    Windows 7, this changed the widths of the columns had changed and
> > > with it the column breaks, etc.  I checked Format ->  Page ->  Columns:
> > > *.odt showed from Autowidth with columns = 1.42, space = 0.70;  *.doc
> > > had columns = 2.13, space = 0.70.  The numbers do not make sense to
> > > me, but the visual change is clear.  I noticed this problem with an
> > > earlier version of LibreOffice 3.4 and I think also with Open Office
> > > 3.3.
> > ...
> >
> > I tested as per the above, and indeed LO does save the .doc with
> > modified column widths. I tested by saveas in LO 3.3.3 and then opened
> > the .doc with:
> >
> > LO 3.3.3 (linux)
> > LO 3.4.3 (linux)
> > OOo 3.2.1 (go-oo build - Ubuntu linux)
> > OOo 3.2.0 (Windows)
> > MSO Word97 (yes I have MSO97 on an VirtuaBox Win2K install)
> >
> > The worst/more serious issue is that in MSO Word97 blank second column
> > is inserted/shown. This means that the document renders only 3 populated
> > columns rather than 4. Screenshot is here:
> >
> > http://imageshack.us/f/841/screenshotwin2kprorunni.png/
> >
> > So, you've a valid bug to report. Check to see if one hasn't already
> > been filed before filing yours. Start a new thread regarding the problem
> > when you've done that and I'll be glad to contribute/add to the bug
> > report with my tests/screenshots.



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