[Libreoffice-qa] What should I do with a bug, where I got a file to test and can confirm it, but are not allowed to attach the file to the bug?

[Thomas Hackert]

Hello Christian, *,
On Mi, 30. Apr 2014 13:38 Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Thomas Hackert
> <thackert at nexgo.de> wrote:
>> I stumbled upon bug #77330
>> (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77330),
>>
>> I had searched at
>> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/FindTheExpert to find out, if
>> I could find a dev, to whom I could send this zipped files,
> 
> This is more or less the only way in such a case, when the sample
> should not be made public for whatever reason.

but then, who is working in the area of master documents? I found 
only Writer (and therefore Michael S.) ... :(

>> but I am
>> not sure, if this is right way. As I can partly confirm this bug,
>> I have added my comment to the bug
>> (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77330#c2).
> 
> That comment is written in a rather unclear fashion. It misses
> what a) actually refers to. From context one can guess that those
> are the versions that you can reproduce with.

I confirm, I should have written this in a more understandable 
manner, sorry ... :( Yes, that were the versions, with which I could 
reproduce the bug.

> And also still unclear what "discus" is, as in the crippled
> screenshot I cannot see anything that resembles a disc/round
> object/discus.

I am still not sure, how I should name it, as this "discus" (as Ton 
has named it) stretches over several sides, so if I look at it, it 
seems to form a disc (like the outer part of an CD). And circle does 
not seem to fit here as well ... :(

> While you speculate earlier that it is the white bar with the
> black outline, you write "... does not show the "discus" (or maybe
> better disc?)" - I neither see something that looks like a floppy
> disk or harddrive, nor anything round. So what is the bug about? I
> assume the white bar.

Well, there are also Compact Disk ... ;) I have looked for a better 
word, but alas was not able to find one ... :( As written above, 
this white (pitch or graduated?) circle on the screenshot spans over 
the following sides, so it seems to form a whole circle. But if you 
use either a larger display and a smaller zoom factor than 50 or 
100%, this effect does not show (that is, what Ton told me). I 
cannot confirm it, as I have only my 10" netbook here ... :(

>> And now? As
>> I am not a dev, I will not be able to fix it ... :( The master
>> document in question depends on 100 ODT files with pictures and
>> the like, so it would be hard to create one master document with
>> that amount of ODTs (or better say: I would not have the time for
>> it the next months) ... :(
> 
> The crux is not to create a new set of documents, but to trim down
> the existing ones to show the problem.

O.K.

> i.e. first replace all documents with a single one (i.e. copy one
> document and name it like the others) - this is easily done, but
> of course doesn't guarantee that the problem still shows.

It depends, how you do define "easily done" ... ;) They are named 
something like "U1.E1.001.odt" up to "U8.E1.001.odt" (not to forget 
a copyright and a copyright file for something else) ... :( I would 
not know an easy way to do this ... :(

> But if it does still show, then that does already help a lot.

Hm. Maybe I will have the time the next days, but I cannot give such 
undertaking, sorry ... :(
Thanks for your answer
Thomas.

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