Stable Release Updates types proposal

[David Tardon]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 07:58:03AM +0000, Terry Barnaby wrote:
> Last night I was helping some school kids with a powerpoint presentation
> they had written. They had, not un-reasoanbly, used FontWork titles.
> Under F12 with OpenOffice 3.1 it took 3 minutes to load the 10 slide file
> and about 1 minute between slides. Editing was basically impossible.
> I had to go back to a F8 system OpenOffice 2.x system to edit the FontWork
> out. How on earth did this "release" get out (Fedora/OpenOffice ??) ??
> This is just one of many basic issues I and others have had with Fedora
> recently.

And where is your bug report? Anyway, there is no justification for you
having used the wording that you used ('How on earth did this "release"
get out (Fedora/OpenOffice ??) ?? This is just one of many basic issues
I and others have had with Fedora recently.'), because:

1. Fontwork objects are 3-D objects, therefore the performance depends
   on graphic driver, card and so on. I just checked it and it works
   reasonably well on my machine (6-slide presentation with a fontwork
   on each slide was loaded in 10 seconds and transition between slides
   took a second at worst). That means there are users for whom it
   works without problems.

2. This upstream bug: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=58291
   says someone had similar performance problems with fontwork in OO.o 2.0.
   That means it's nothing new in 3.1 (and I personally doubt there
   was much change in this area between 2.3 and 3.1).

3. Fontwork is just a very small piece of OO.o. Even if it had as poor
   performance as you describe on _every_ system, it would hardly be a
   blocker for release of OO.o and it's absolutely unimaginable it would be
   a blocker for release of Fedora. That means it can hardly be described
   as basic issue.

D.