Re: [libreoffice-website] Ideas and voting platform

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Axel <axelist@lavabit.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Do you think it is possible to implement for LibreOffice a platform like
> Idea Torrent (http://ideatorrent.org/) or anything like this?
> I mentioned Idea Torrent because I saw it in action at Ubuntu Brainstorm
> (http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/), but if you know something else that works
> better than a wiki page with "Crazy Ideas" or "Vote for Enhancement" ...

For reference, here's the current state of the proposals for 'voting
for bugs' in the LO project:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Vote_for_Enhancement
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37141

The concept behind the Idea Torrent software is good, but I'm a little
concerned about the future of the codebase. It looks like the primary
dev got busy with other work 3 years ago, stopped a re-write of the
codebase, and stopped posting to the project blog. The latest stable
release is about a year older than that.

The archive link for the dev mailing list gives me a "Page not found"
error, the forums are overrun with spam, and there are multiple
high-importance bugs dating from 2008 that haven't been fixed.

Given the current state of the software, I'd suggest against using
this particular tool. Our existing infrastructure is already heaping
more than enough work on our existing IT team, and I'd like to seem
them focus on fixing our existing applications before introducing
anything else -- especially something as unmaintained as this.

--R

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