Hi Andreas,
On 05.06.2013 14:00, Andreas Säger wrote:
> If the developers obviously have no clue how to get things right, if
> even the project lead seems to be completely clueless about the way his
> product works ...
>
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@openoffice.apache.org/msg07883.html
>
> ... how could I contribute anything useful?
- By giving constructive feedback
- By asking questions
- By helping with translation
- By helping with testing
- By helping with documentation
- By helping with marketing and promotion
- By setting up a test environment, installing old version OOo 3.x or
AOO 3.4.x, upgrading to AOO 4.0 and reporting success or failure
- By taking responsibility for certain management tasks
- ...
>
> I do not even understand my own extension anymore that I wrote 6 years
> ago. I do understand my own code but not the complicated XML
> configuration. The only thing I know for sure is that most of this
> extension used to run with any version from 1.4.x until 3.x.
>
> How could I test anything if I do not have any access to version 4? Am I
> supposed to compile it from source code or what?
By taking the stuff the community is providing - build bot results and
developer snapshots. These are installation sets that anybody of the
community can install easily.
Building it from source is also a good option.
Best regards, Oliver.
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