Re: Bugs and wanted features in Gnumeric

["Vladimir Chukharev" <chu kemia me tut fi>]

On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 12:23:02 -0500, Adrian Custer <acuster nature berkeley edu> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> Thanks for your feedback.

You are welcome. Thanks for your work on the project and for
the comments!

> Your ideas could be more useful to us if you would be willing to file
> them in Bugzilla. The best thing to do would be to

OK, I will. But don't hold your breath - I'm more concerned about
my PhD thesis now than filing bugs ;) The first message actually
took a week to send because of the real life problems.

> 1) Start a meta-bug titled "Features needed for scientific publishing"
> or some similar title. This bug will hold references to all the other
> bugs.

Well, I don't know how it can hold references, hope I can find it out.

> 2) File each bug separately, checking to make sure that there is not
> already a bug filed for the issue. Then, once the bug is filed, add a
> link to the meta-bug above.
>
> 3) file the other bugs a simple bugs. The "it dies" bug is especially
> troubling. If you have a way to reliably cause gnumeric to crash,
> please, please, please, file a bug with a good explanation. You will
> help yourself *and* everyone else.

For me the crashes are less disturbing than the missing features,
I just "don't do that" ;-)

> These steps might take you an hour of work, but it would greatly help
> the developers track, comment, and fix each of the bugs.

Full hour without interruptions is not easy to find these days :-(

> thanks,
> adrian

Best regard,
--
V.Chukharev