Import chapters tracked changes into master document

Hi,

I am writing a multi chapter text on OO/LO by using a master document and I have been hit by the following bug:
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121166

In simple words, the master document does not show the tracked changes of each chapter.
This is very important to me, because we want to publish a document that shows all the changes that were made to the text.
As always, the risk is that my organisation pushes us back to MSOffice…

If I break the links (Edit > Link to external files > Break), OO/LO import all the contents of the chapters in the master file except the tracked changes.

As a workaround, I am trying to write a Python script that mimics the breaking of the link to the external files, while importing the tracked changes of the chapters.
I tried to use odfpy library for this purpose (GitHub - eea/odfpy: API for OpenDocument in Python), it imports the tracked changes and it works with simple chapters, but I cannot merge the content of complex chapters in the master document.

So my questions are:

  1. Do you see any possible alternative way to achieving the same result?

  2. Would it be possible to add the importing of the tracked changes in OO/LO code?

  3. Where in OO/LO code is “Edit > Link to external files > Break” managed?

I thank you very much in advance!

Best regards,

Emanuele Gissi

Same question has been asked, and received response(s) at Import chapters tracked changes into master document (View topic) • Apache OpenOffice Community Forum

After a long discussion on OO Forum, the issue has a workaround, but not a solution: Import chapters tracked changes into master document (View topic) • Apache OpenOffice Community Forum

So I set up a crowdfunding to solve the issue:
https://freedomsponsors.org/issue/845/track-changes-linked-files-changes-are-not-shown-in-the-master-document

And got in contact with one developer to solve the issue for the whole Community.
I will keep you posted