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Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 22:49:09 -0400
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Subject: Re: OpenOffice most annoying bugs
From: Rob Weir <robweir@apache.org>
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On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Pedro F. Giffuni <giffunip@tutopia.com> wrote:
> Hi;
>
> I went through the early LibreOffice archives
> checking which issues from our database they
> considered for inclusion.
>
> I have to say it was a GREAT idea to start
> from the tip of the Hg development tree as
> most fixes already appear closed (applied
> or integrated to a CWS).
>
> The following 24 open bugs in our database
> include patches and have been integrated
> (in some form) into LibreOffice:
>
> Bug 1526 - Small Caps are different sizes twixt Word and StarWriter
> Bug 7065 - A wizard for Page Numbering
> Bug 61927 - WW6: exporting a document twice replaces capital danish characters with squares
> Bug 76649 - sfx2: html parser support for html with missing encoding
> Bug 80184 - can't add SVG draw documents to gallery via API
> Bug 92341 - WW8: CTL/Thai font convert incorrectly when import from MS Office 2003
> Bug 94007 - Slideshow crashes on exit (multi-screen)
> Bug 95369 - Writer crash related to input fields
> Bug 97332 - MS Word 95 export filter does not recognize Korean characters
> Bug 100686 - wizards: Euro converter wizard don't work when searching for calc documents in a dir
> Bug 101057 - merge ww6 and wmf encoding spliter
> Bug 101100 - allow -fstrict-aliasing
> Bug 108846 - sfx2: gtk quick starter is still a bit sick
> Bug 111741 - extras: malformed XML file
> Bug 112387 - extras: updated Hungarian standard.bau
> Bug 112786 - unotools: make ConfigManager a well-behaved singleton
> Bug 112795 - sfx2: dock windows change position after restart of the app
> Bug 112821 - configure: system mythes is not used when configured with --with-system-libs
> Bug 113141 - fpicker: gtk Save As dialog should show all appropriate formats by default
> Bug 113803 - Add Tower labels
> Bug 113873 - Russian dictionary for integration
> Bug 114012 - sd: a11y crash because ctor chain calls back into object before ctor is complete
> Bug 114423 - sfx2: possible use of dangling reference
> Bug 117017 - ARM optimization for armv6/armv7
>
> Perhaps we should label them "3.4 showstopper"
> or something.
>
> Also, someone please close Bugs 96705 and 113874,
> they have dictionaries under a copyleft license so
> we won't be including them into Apache OpenOffice.

Is it worth contacting the authors of these dictionaries to see if
they would consider giving it a license we can use?  Most people want
their open source work to be reused, especially by prominent
application like OpenOffice.  They share with us the common goal of
making open source applications widely available.  They may even be a
users of OpenOffice.  So it is worth asking.  The worst that can
happen is they say, "No".

> ____
>
> Of course, I may have missed some fixes, but this
> should cover all the changes up to March 2011.
>
> Also, as was to be expected, the latest commits carry
> less and less OOo fixes and more bugs of their own.
> Just a sign that, well ... we are diverging.
>
> cheers,
>
> Pedro.
>