Re: Help with OpenOffice BiDi bugs

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Shoshannah Forbes <xslf at xslf dot com> wrote:
> As OpenOffice 2.0 is getting close to releasing a beta version, many 
> Hebrew bugs where marked as "OOo later" (which means that they won't 
> make it into the 2.0 release), I decided together with the company that 
> does the Hebrew localization to compile a list of the most important 
> ones, so pressure can be put on Sun in order to get them fixed. I am 
> trying to get the community vote (and if possible fix) these bugs, to 
> show Sun that there is indeed a need for them to get fixed, even for 
> minority languages like ones that need BiDi.
> 
> Although I don't know Arabic very well, I suspect that many of these 
> affect Arabic as well, as many of them seem to be more BiDi bugs then 
> Hebrew ones.

As Munzir has noted the bugs that we're tracking are listed on the now
working Wiki "OpenBugs" [1] page.

The bugs listed below are not part of the bugs we're keeping an eye on.
Munzir can you please look into them and see if they need to be added
to our list ?

> * http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=14069
> * http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=30631
> * http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=17514
> * http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=16295
> * http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=37911
> * http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10326
> * http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=30518

I'm not sure votes alone will get someone's attention.  We might need
a write-in campaign or similar to really stress the issues to some key
decision makers.

[1] http://wiki.arabeyes.org/OpenBugs

Salam.

 - Nadim


		
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