The other day while I was running oocalc in the FC4 distribution of the OpenOffice.org suite the program crashed and a dialog message came up stating that "OOo has crashed ..." and requesting that I send a bug report with the displayed information. Assuming that the request was from the OpenOffice.org team, I filed a bug report with them, taking the time to provide a substantial amount of supporting information. I received back a terse request that I file bug reports against the latest, not the production version of the software I am running. When I wrote back to point out that I wasn't a beta tester, and that I had only filed a bug report because they had asked me to, they retorted that it wasn't their software that had crashed, and made it very clear that they don't want bug reports for derived versions of their software which they didn't build themselves. I wrote back and apologized for having bothered them, thinking that the dialog box requesting the bug report had been put up by the OOo team, rather than the Fedora team, and I promised that I would pass along to the Fedora team a suggestion that your build should not be requesting bug reports for builds of OOo created by the Fedora team. So that's what I'm doing. Bob Kline (Yes, I know it doesn't make any sense for developers to turn down carefully prepared feedback on problems in their software, no matter where it's built. I'm just passing on what I was told by the OOo team. Sorry!) __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com
