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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jan 5 00:25:40 -0800 2007 ------- I feel that the attitude over this issue has, from the start, been high handed and arrogant. I /like/ OOo very much, and admire the availability of the issuezilla system. In general it works well. But it is not an efficient method of establishing 2- way communications on non-techincal decisions. I have seen nothing that justifies the original change to .rpm packaging. There were no issues saying "the universal installer in 1.1 does not work" nor user clamour for change. If you combine the various reactions in the various issuezilla issues with the feelings on the oooforums.org site there is a lot of difficulty with the .rpm solution, and a lot of unhappiness among the people who matter most to the project, the ordinary users. Now "wontfix" is at least a decision, which is better than some of the infinite dangling that goes on with other matters. But I don't consider it a sensible one until a detailed, argued, case has been plainly put in public - perhaps on the download page for linux - explaining why the software cannot be released in the universal manner that 1.1 was, or ready-to-run binary like firefox. Maybe it is OOo's policy that linux distos should have thier own pacakage format in thier own online repository, because that will serve the users better. If so, please say so politely and with conviction and in public. Maybe there are testing resource limitiations that the universal installer identified. So let us know, informatively and in detail. The original issue had over 50 votes. This one has 14 already. It obviously matters to people. I remain astonished that in 44102 we were told that the work had been done to support varied distribution methods, and here we are being told that work will not be capitalised upon! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
