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

On 10/2/2014 9:25 AM, Werner <wernerfbd@gmx.ch> wrote:
> "Most normal users" will unfortunately have to be more patient until 
> their pet bug gets fixed.

Maybe english isn't your first language, and you don't realize how
condescending your comments are?

This isn't *just* 'someone's pet bug'. This is a major regression that:

a) should have never happened in the first place

(copy/paste testing should have been among the very first tests the
dev(s) coding this major new change/feature performed)

and

b) since the new feature was replacing a fundamental, well established
behavior, the old functionality should have been kept in place as a user
configurable option for at *least* the lifetime of one full major
release, if not permanently (I would vote for permanently, because I
prefer the old pop-up way, as do many of the Libreoffice users I've
discussed this with, which is more than 100).

> Or have to take some interest in helping the 
> community and learn/find out how to install a daily build onto a non 
> critical/test machine and help pushing the fix for the pet bug forward.

<sigh>

Again, sometimes people don't have time to do this for every single
release, especially when major feature changes are not pre-announced,
with calls for testing.

Again, sch major changes should *always* provide for a fallback to the
old way, at least until the new way is stable.

Anything else is just begging for ... well, threads like this one.

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