[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 90028] Importer drops Lotus Word Pro document formatting

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90028

--- Comment #20 from David Tardon <dtardon at redhat.com> ---
(In reply to Todd from comment #15)
> (In reply to Buovjaga from comment #14)
> > Reasons why we ignore bugs:
> > - lack of volunteer work force
> > - lack of clients to contract fixes for specific problems from commercial
> > support companies
> 
> This does not cut it.  How many new releases do you do every month?  You
> obviously have the resources.  It is just a conscious decision on your part
> to ignore bugs reported by the users and concentrate on other things.

You seem to think that there's someone who's in a position to issue orders to
the contributors, like what to work (or do not work) on... I have to disappoint
you. That's not how Open Source development works. The contributors are either
volunteers, who work on what they want to; or employees of companies offering
LibreOffice support, who work on what they are paid to. If there isn't anybody
who wants to spend HIS time to fix reported bugs in LWP import (or is paid to),
it won't be done. It's as simple as that. If you don't like waiting, then fix
the bug yourself. Or find/motivate someone to do it for you. (Or pay to one of
the support companies, after all.)

Btw, that YOUR bug hasn't been fixed doesn't mean that we don't fix bugs. Your
claim is not only not true, it's insulting. That doesn't give much motivation
to any volunteer looking at this bug...

Last thing: I don't understand the releases argument. Even if we did nothing
else bug fix reported bugs for the next few years, the release cadence would
remain the same, because releases are the only way to get the fixes to users.
If anything, the amount of work on releases would increase, because more fixes
on master would undoubtedly lead to more backports to older branches...

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