LibreOffice 5.0.0 | Bugs and Users

LibreOffice 5.0.0 | Bugs and Users

by Derek Chirnside -
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Just downloading LibreOffice 5.0.0.  

Will fix a dreaded copy and paste bug that has been plaguing me for a while.  And I read this blog post from last year: https://joelmadero.wordpress.com/2014/10/11/user-expectations-and-the-reality-of-our-community/

A bit of an extract:

"Notice: I debated if I should write this or not – so in advance, I apologize if it comes off as overly aggressive.

Lately I’ve been seeing a spike in users demands both on the user mailing list, the chat room, and on bug posts. More and more I’m seeing things like “this is a blocker for me and therefore it should have a higher priority.” This is truly a problematic trend and I hope that those reading this will take a moment to reflect on the impact that such comments have on our community.

It is incredibly easy to point fingers and tell someone else to “fix it.” Fortunately, that is not how our community has worked, nor is it how it works now. Angry comments that criticize a regression, or try to manipulate priorities/importance in order to get higher attention, is only bound to lead to developers  and QA becoming unmotivated, avoiding the bug completely, etc . ."

Interesting to see things from the POV of another community.

-Derek

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Re: LibreOffice 5.0.0 | Bugs and Users

by Derek Chirnside -

This is the second interesting more or less random item I've read about coding this week.

A quick summary of the book "Dreaming in code" by Scott Rosenburg.  I was reading this blog post: http://bensbookblog.blogspot.fr/2007/09/dreaming-in-code-by-scott-rosenberg.html  It talks about a lot of stuff, and reminded me of "Code Complete" which a friend made me read to help my coding, back in the day when I did it.

One little random comment from this blog post that struck me:

Why we all have to plan by Watts Humphrey (he took over the System360 project at IBM)

  • Mostly we work for organizations - these organizations require plans
  • [Unless you are independently wealthy], you must work to a schedule
  • If you don’t make your own schedules, somebody else will
  • Then that person will control your work

Complete aside: Watts Humphrey, retired from IBM in 1980, once led Big Blue’s software development. His group “who had never before made a delivery schedule, did not miss a date for the next two and a half years.”  Also, see https://www.sei.cmu.edu/watts/

-Derek




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