[libreoffice-users] How to handle regressions

Hi Tanstaalf,

In the thread "LibreOffice Still" you made a very important point, 
however it has absolutely nothing to do with the main point of the 
discussion on how to name versions and I just by chance noted it.

You then might have a chance of having it dealt with.

Werner

P.S.
Just a LO user who sometimes reads this list but just about every time 
get frustrated with it due to the misuse of threads!



On 10/1/2014 12:27, Tanstaafl wrote:> On 10/1/2014 5:06 AM, Charles-H. 
Schulz

...

> <rant>
> Charles, fyi, in our office, we are stuck on 4.1.6 because of a major
> regression introduced in 4.2 that is still there today.
>
> When our first user reported this after I started updating everyone (at
> about 4.2.4), so I had to revert them all (I'd gotten maybe 20
> workstations updated that weekend).
>
> I kept promising my boss that 'they will have to fix this, it is a
> regression and they treat these seriously' - but here we are, 8 months
> later, and we still cannot upgrade. Because everyone found about about
> this, a few very vocal users in our office took this opportunity to
> start lobbying (again) for replacing Libreoffice with Microsoft Office,
> and it looks like they are going to win this time. I know it is only 70
> seats, and you probably don't really care, but I do. The fact is, I
> cannot even recommend Libreoffice on new clients in good conscience, if
> the response to a very serious regression bug report is along the lines
> of 'well, you can just fix it yourself, it is free open source after 
all'.
>
> *Anytime* a long standing feature is totally ripped out and replaced
> with something else that causes a major regression, it should be an
> absolute top priority to fix it in the very next release. In fact, I
> would say that it should be a part of the agreement that any contributor
> signs, that if they are the one responsible for a regression like this,
> they are *required* to fix it asap.
>
> So, for us, 4.2 and 4.3 are *both* unstable - meaning, we *cannot use
> them*, because they lack a very basic capability that we have relied on
> since, oh, I don't know... version 1?
>
> In case you were wondering, it is the new 'Inline Fields' functionality,
> that when introduced, broke the ability to paste into them, and the bug
> is still there today, in 4.3.2.
> </rant>
>


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