Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 3:56 am Post subject: weird bug
I don't know if report this in bugzilla, 'cause it so weird.
I have a database in mysql, and I use neooffice to connect to it. All is working fine, more or less. Sometimes neoffice makes strange things.
Today I make a form to insert data in a table. I use the automatic pilot to have a standard table form, and after I change some columns properties for uses pop up menu, eccetera. I do not change anything of the second column properties.
I try the form exiting the draft mode, and I see the data in the form real nice. All is working fine. I save the file, exit the form, and I open it again: a column is lost. There is not the second column. I open again the form in draft mode, the column is lost. I build it again, I move it to the second position, I try it, all is working fine. Save, reopen, column is lost. I open again in draft mode, column is lost, I built it again, and *this time* I left it in last place, not the second column, but last one. I save, reopen, the column is still there...
Why? There is something I'm missing, or could be a Oo bug? Or a neooffice one?
I put the bug in bugzilla and pluby answered me; it is a Oo 1.1.3 but, not a neooffice one.
I have a question about the 'won't fix' section: when neooffice will be not more a beta, all the 'won't fix' bugs still remain in neooffice, or there will be a 'deep' debugging of those Oo bugs?
I have a question about the 'won't fix' section: when neooffice will be not more a beta, all the 'won't fix' bugs still remain in neooffice, or there will be a 'deep' debugging of those Oo bugs?
Usually, we don't ever fix OOo functionality bugs. This is because Sun has several dozen paid engineers to fix these bugs whereas Neo/J is just Ed and I working in our spare time. In other words, Ed and I don't have the time available to fix the Sun's well-staffed development group's bugs.
I know this and I understand your choice.
I'm quite disappointed 'cause I'm learning the database section of neooffice/Oo is too in-stable to be used for work. I was asking myself if neooffice could be 'more' that a Oo porting, but unpayed programmers could not make the work of a payed team.
And if neooffice will be a commercial product? I remember the donation/commercial discussion in the forum.
We can talk in other forum section anyway.
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Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 9:45 am Post subject: ...not by committee!
I sympathize with the Sun engineers. They've probably got a management committee (with entirely different and often unrelated priorities and a boatload of political in-fighting and jockeying for power) riding herd on what they do, which messes up actually getting things done in a timely fashion (or maybe EVER!).
Now, Ed and Patrick are clearly exceptional people (and exceptional programmers too, of course), ready, willing and able to jump in a fix what needs fixing with a refreshingly positive attitude. But they're also unencumbered by that stupid, political entity known as the committee. Thank heaven!
Great work, guys. Keep it lean and mean! Cheers, _________________ Gib Henry
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And the Sun ones are 
