Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Tell me it's not true

On 03/01/2012 04:46 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
> I don't understand any of the technicalities of what the devs are
> saying about their process but Cor and Alex are saying completely
> opposite sounding things so it sounds as though there must be a
> bottle-neck somewhere.

I provided more clarification in another reply

> It would be vastly more helpful to join in with the devs that are doing coding work for Base.  
> According to Cor there are quite a few people doing such work.  However according to Alex there are 
> never many commits (or something).  So, if one of the  bottle-necks is just that someone is needed 
> to do the equivalent of proof-reading and pushing through QA then it would be fantastic to do that  
> rather than try to create soemothing new from scratch that benefits no-one else and that gets no 
> help from anyone else either.

At the end of the day, it is an issue of time. I am behind on numerous 
pieces of documentation, and even when it works, it will take a 
significant investment in time to implement in Base and I still have the 
limitations of Base. As time is available, I am trying to find some 
other bugs that are very difficult for me to find. Off hand, it provides 
me more benefit in new knowledge gained (because it is something that I 
can use at work to earn money) if I build my own. It takes a bit more 
time, but I don't expect it to break with the next release (well, not as 
often anyway).

The better use of my time would have been to be purposeful of testing 
all of my DB applications against RCs so that I could have filed 
blockers. One issue, however, is that I cannot release the data 
contained in the DBs that I created.

> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
> --- On Thu, 1/3/12, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak<andrew@pitonyak.org>  wrote:
>
> From: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak<andrew@pitonyak.org>
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Tell me it's not true
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Date: Thursday, 1 March, 2012, 21:19
>
> On 02/29/2012 06:40 AM, drew jensen wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 12:26 +0100, Alexander Thurgood wrote:
> > > Le 29/02/12 07:43, Andreas Säger a écrit :
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > > Base is best when you ignore most of its tools and helpers relying
> > > > entirely on your own skills and on the capabilities of the underlying
> > > > database driver.
> > > I wish it were otherwise, but sadly, well said.
> > *laughing*...I'll be damned, I was tempted to say exactly that, pulled
> > it back at that last second - but yes that is about it.
> >
> > Honestly - I stopped advising anyone to use Base for anything quite a
> > while back.
> I created a few databases but I found them unstable.... By that, I mean that things would simply 
> stop working after an upgrade or after too much data had been added (by large I mean too many 
> images so the dataset took many MB rather than too many records). The last time it happened, I just 
> stopped using it rather than attempting to find and fix the issue. Toying with writing my own 
> application in C++.
>
> -- Andrew Pitonyak
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>
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