Re: [libreoffice-users] ... not working ...

I would say the code is "getting better". I've only been on the project a
few months so I can't say how much progress we've made but I know that we
still have a build time of 4+ hours which says a lot. The code is still a
bit tricky, not enough comments left by previous developers, etc...

Also, I would argue that "our project" (meaning LibO, we don't use LO ;) ),
is quite small still. We have a very small team of developers who routinely
(>1 patch per week) contribute, a slightly bigger team that submits at
least one patch a month, and then a couple hundred that have submitted 1 or
2 patches in the course of several months (this includes myself ). We could
probably double our number of developers doing 1 patch or so a month and
still be in need for quite a few more.

Regards,
Joel

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi :)
> Just one thing.  LO is not particularly small and it's definitely not
> new.  The original code was called Star Office and was developed around a
> decade or so ago.  After a couple of years Sun took it on and called it
> OpenOffice.org and then TDF took the code and called it LibreOffice.  So
> there are probably chunks of the code and ways of doing things that date
> back to the last century!  Hence why you still see references to "soffice"
> if you look in your task-manager or systems processes.
>
> Now that a lot of the old irrelevant comments and stuff have been almost
> cleaned out (allegedly) it might be possible to focus more on streamlining
> and using more modern approaches in some areas.  It should definitely be
> easier to find your way around the code and i think that is going to have
> some big impacts on the effectiveness of any work done by the devs.  The
> Pita stuff is nearly done.  Time for some fun!  (or have i got it wrong
> again?)
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>   ------------------------------
> *From:* Joel Madero <jmadero.dev@gmail.com>
> *To:* users@global.libreoffice.org
> *Sent:* Friday, 19 October 2012, 14:53
>
> *Subject:* Re: [libreoffice-users] ... not working ...
>
> On 10/18/2012 11:11 PM, rost52 wrote:
> > This is a very interesting information. I am not really surprised by the
> ration indicated here. I exepcte finding the cause of a bug takes much more
> time than final fix. I am grateful to the dev because I know myself how
> difficult it is to find a bug in a complicated SW.
> > Question: What means:
> > - bot lists
> > -FDO
> In IRC (chat client) we have automatic robots that routinely (ten's of
> times a day) say what patches have been submitted to gerrit (the service we
> use to keep our code). Every time a patch is submitted the robot (bot)
> spits out an automated message saying that a person (with a name) has
> submitted a patch and explains what that patch does.
>
> FDO = free desktop . org (f d o). Ans is where you can report bugs
> pertaining to the libreoffice project. If you want to see a list of
> confirmed bugs look here -- you'll see immediately how overwhelmed a small
> project can get:
>
>
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&list_id=147729&product=LibreOffice&query_format=advanced&order=opendate%2Cchangeddate%2Cbug_status%2Cpriority%2Cassigned_to%2Cbug_id&limit=0
>
> That is 3,956 bugs and climbing (there are an additional 1,200 or so that
> are reported but not confirmed yet...the QA team confirms the bugs so
> developers can focus on coding)
>
>
> Regards,
> Joel
>
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LibO QA Volunteer
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