Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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- Poked at my buildbot slave, got the remote hostname
wrong, fixed that, and onto another error; not the easiest thing
to setup clearly. Call with Jakub - hacking away at some beautiful
new Tango icons for OO.o, unwound some cvs/cws problems.
- Read Eike's link to the OpenFormula
wiki page; most of it seems excellent, except the "Doesn't mandate
mistakes" piece. Ultimately good interoperability mandates biting
your fist, and at least supporting the same mistakes as codified in
some staggering chunk of the world's extant spreadsheets. The rest of
the text looks reasonable, but extrapolating the "lets go for 'beautiful'
instead of interoperable" mentality, and adding the "oh but we have to
be compatible with old StarOffice files" (which of course add just a
different set of 'mistakes' and data loss from previous imperfect imports)
may well drive everything into the ground. Of course - since many
implementors are going to have to implement some of these mistakes,
standardizing hints for annotating that would be rather a good idea
surely ?
- Did some analysis of war-pig cold-start strace output, only
29secs to start, hmm. Isolated (& fixed?) an incredible writer (numeric)
table sorting bug. Out to hoover the church, scrub toilets etc.
- Call with Mike & Prasad, chewed over the build-bot, Prasad
fixed my BuildBot problem on the server. Dinner, back to hack, further
improved the writer sort patch. Hacked at my LXF column ...
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license. I encourage linking back (of course) to help people decide for
themselves, in context, in the battle for ideas, and I love fixes /
improvements / corrections by private mail.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE,
Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
