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<body><span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:mikekaganski@hotmail.com" title="Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski@hotmail.com>"> <span class="fn">Mike Kaganski</span></a>
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title="RESOLVED INVALID - format Cells dialog fails to adjust heterogeneous formats to default format of (Number General)"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123812">bug 123812</a>
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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed"
title="RESOLVED INVALID - format Cells dialog fails to adjust heterogeneous formats to default format of (Number General)"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123812#c5">Comment # 5</a>
on <a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed"
title="RESOLVED INVALID - format Cells dialog fails to adjust heterogeneous formats to default format of (Number General)"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123812">bug 123812</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:mikekaganski@hotmail.com" title="Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski@hotmail.com>"> <span class="fn">Mike Kaganski</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to Elliot from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=123812#c3">comment #3</a>)
<span class="quote">> It's useful for a bug to get attention, and it's just not clear to me what
> attention a 2+ year old bug will get when I add a "it happens to me too"
> comment to it. It's a major bug, but the Severity of it is set to "normal".
> I'm just trying to help this bug get the attention it deserves so that users
> can have this basic functionality of Calc not be broken. Is that too much
> to ask? The bug is independently confirmed, as you can see in the bug
> report I linked to. You have set status to resolved, but you have not
> addressed the issues/concerns/questions raised in this present bug report.
> I suggest either addressing these concerns or save yourself time and delete
> my account because I'm not going away.</span >
Please don't do things inappropriate for a resource with some specific rules,
however you wanted the world to be another place.
1. It is *not* appropriate to write "me-too" comments anywhere in the bug
tracker - so your "it's just not clear to me what attention a 2+ year old bug
will get when I add a "it happens to me too" comment to it" is wrong from the
start, because such a comment should not have appeared there at all, and should
be hidden as irrelevant "me too" is appeared. This bug tracker has this policy
set by those who created it, so please comply.
2. It is *not* appropriate to clear INVALID resolution from duplicates created
to bump things. The entry you have created *is* INVALID, and is marked as such.
*This* bug report is RESOLVED INVALID, which doesn't make the original
<a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_NEW "
title="NEW - setting General number format does not work with selected cells if they are formatted to different number formats"
href="show_bug.cgi?id=96954">tdf#96954</a> resolved or something - it will continue to patiently wait for its
developer.
3. It is *not* appropriate to try bumping and driving attention to anything
here. A bug will only receive attention, when it's triaged appropriately (a
task for QA team; and that already happened), and then *an interested
developer* comes across it. There's no body out there that checks for issues
bumped repeatedly; and moreover, an issue with multiple irrelevant and arrogant
comments gets less chances to get attention at all - developers usually treat
such issues as difficult to understand (requiring one to read multiple comments
with little, often contradicting, information, instead of small number of
concentrated useful information).
The only useful thing an interesting party can do is to *help*, not to bump:
one might try to find a developer (find a developer friend; start a
crowdfunding campaign; become a developer oneself); or try to add something
substantial (e.g., narrow down a problem: find additional constraints - OS or
LO versions; relevant settings; whatever might be missing but relevant to the
problem).
All other things in bug tracker make its issues filled with noise, and make it
useless. It doesn't matter if your pet bug is 3 or 30 years old - doing such
things is harmful.
Thanks for understanding.</pre>
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