Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

On 10/1/2014 12:54 PM, Florian Reisinger <florei@libreoffice.org> wrote:
> 9 bugs for 30k €. That is a fair price...
>
> Continuing reading the thread now...
>
> PS: If a volunteer does not tackle your pet bug, you should get
> someone to fix it (search for "libreoffice L3 support" for other
> service provider...

Let's see...

Pay you extortion in the amount of $4,200 (assuming I can get just one
bug fixed for 1/9th the quoted price, which I suspect is unlikely) to
fix a *regression* caused by someone arbitrarily deciding to *replace*
(as opposed to providing the new feature, but allow users to fall back
to the old functionality) a feature that has been working fine for 10?
years with a 'new & improved' version (not knocking the feature itself,
just that it doesn't work properly in that it lacks a very fundamental
and necessary capability), or...

Stick with 4.1.6 (that actually works).

Let me think about it for a while - and please feel free to hold your
breathe while I do...

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