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Hi Rene, all,

it seems that your mail started an evolution in this thread leading to negative feelings and reproaches that should be avoided.

The Steering Committee asked me and Cor Nouws to have a eye on this (and the other lists we're subscribed to) in order to keep discussions on topic and avoid misbehavior.

Sorry for stepping in so late, but I'm unable to be present 24 hours a day...

Rene Engelhard schrieb:
Hi,

On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 09:03:35AM -0600, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
unsuspecting users to the same problem that OOo has been famous for:
there is no obvious way to start to install the files.  Dependencies for

dpkg -i *.deb?

each .deb have to be met, but nothing indicates the order with which to
install them.  When dealing with 52 .deb files it's like trying to do a
jigsaw puzzle where all distinguishing marks have been filed off.

Nope. Really, I expect anybody having root on a Debian-based system to know
dpkg. Seriously.

This is your personal opinion, you didn't blame anybody - nothing to say against it.

But as the follow-up turned out to become more personal, I want to add my comments here (dedicated to all posters here in this thread):

Your expectation is only valid for yourself - you can't tell anybody else to follow your opinion.

People with different experience and opinions should never be treated as fools or idiots.

In a volunteer community nobody has the right to force anybody to do something. If it might be a bug-fix, an addition to the readme, a piece of documentation, artwork or (really necessary at the moment) work on the LibreOffice website.

But on the other hand nobody is allowed to exclude a contribution just because of his or her opinion, political or other interests. If there are valid reasons they have to be discussed and decided - but this should never be done by any individual.

I don't know if René's position not to include additional installation instructions is shared by the majority of developers. It only shows that we should have a closer look at the Community Bylaws.

The board deciding on including or excluding features and code contributions is *not* the Engineering Steering Committee [ESC]. Their task is "to provide technical guidance, settle technical disputes ..."

The Board of Directors [BoD] - elected by all approved members of community - has to provide (among others) "strategic planning, dispute settlement and community guidance", so it's their duty to find our community's way if there are oppositional interests in different groups of our community.

But normally our intentions are not controversial at all: We want to improve our office suite, get more people to install and use it and find new contributor and more high quality contributions.

So - to come back to the very topic here:

Thanks to David [1] there will be a bug filed to include his how-to (might be based on NoOp's posting[2]) in the Linux version of LibreOffice.

I don't see a reason why René would have to be the one to do this inclusion, if there is anybody else able to do so.

If there are more than personal reasons not to include it, this should be mentioned in the bug report and brought back to this list for further consideration. I think here on this list is the best mixture of "just" users and people with profound knowledge of our product. I'd love to see some input by our UX expert(s), but this seems to me a basic political question: Do we want to make it as easy as possible to install and use our product on every supported platform?

Only in case there is no common agreement on this topic the SC (being in the position of the BoD until the first election) should be involved.

So please let's keep on the good work and avoid insulting each other just because we're individual people with different opinions on one or another topic.

Best regards

Bernhard

[1]: <http://go.mail-archive.com/eJqKKG7fNBgkKexh2MZnTm21RXA=>
[2]: <http://go.mail-archive.com/a2cePZ-wvSelzyGuwyfsWvRJhSM=>

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