Despite the obvious Trolling of the original poster (see the other response), to suggest that someone who doesn't like a feature in OOo should just "fix it for yourself" is pretty unrealistic.
OOo is an enormous project written in pretty dense C++ code. I'm told that new developers need to spend weeks or months just to understand how things hang together, never mind being able to contribute to fix a coding problem.
Maybe a few years ago, when OSS was written for hackers by hackers, the "go and fix it yourself" response was reasonable. These days, the vast majority of users are not programmers and, with something like OOo, even a good programmer could not just walk in and fix something.
So, if you find something is missing, *do* blame others, but rather than some ill-informed rant on Newsforge, raise a bug report with OOo and persuade other people to vote for your bug so it gets attention. (And, yes, the bug submission for OOo is horribly unfriendly too, but that's another story).
If someone does want to contribute to a project like OOo but doesn't have the knowledge, skill or time to work on coding, there are many other parts of the project; such as writing the user docs (www.oooauthors.org) that can always use some help.
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Re:open office has completely failed for Spanish
Posted by: Iain Roberts on May 23, 2005 05:43 PMOOo is an enormous project written in pretty dense C++ code. I'm told that new developers need to spend weeks or months just to understand how things hang together, never mind being able to contribute to fix a coding problem.
Maybe a few years ago, when OSS was written for hackers by hackers, the "go and fix it yourself" response was reasonable. These days, the vast majority of users are not programmers and, with something like OOo, even a good programmer could not just walk in and fix something.
So, if you find something is missing, *do* blame others, but rather than some ill-informed rant on Newsforge, raise a bug report with OOo and persuade other people to vote for your bug so it gets attention. (And, yes, the bug submission for OOo is horribly unfriendly too, but that's another story).
If someone does want to contribute to a project like OOo but doesn't have the knowledge, skill or time to work on coding, there are many other parts of the project; such as writing the user docs (www.oooauthors.org) that can always use some help.
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