You are mostly right. Anyways, I dont believe that there exists some widely used software that you can FULLY rely on in production. Maybe some space and military pieces ... ;) Maybe then: these untested packages can fail with a bit bigger probability than tested ones but are still much better in quality than Microsoft Office? :)
ain On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 18:15, Martin Srebotnjak <mi...@filmsi.net> wrote: > Hello, Marcus et. al., > > I was warned again by Slovenian community about the wording of the > Disclaimer on the download site (http://download.openoffice.org/all_rc.html > ): > *OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 RC2 - untested full installation sets* *Disclaimer: > The software in the following table is based on the final release but has > not passed all final tests. Therefore it cannot be seen as a released build > and should not be deployed in a production environment.* > > Firstly, "but has not passed all final tests" implies, that tests were > performed but that the software packages listed failed them ("did not pass" > = "fail"). Actually these builds were just not tested and there is no proof > that they would fail those tests, probably the reverse is true, they would > probably all pass tests if someone tested them. If not, language communities > or users would be entering issues in IZ already. > > So we propose the following wording: "but were not fully tested" or "but did > not undergo the regular OpenOffice.org testing procedure" or "but did not > undergo the regular QA testing procedures" or something like that. > > Also "should not be deployed in a production environment" means that if they > are used it is illegal or something, or your computer might explode. This > might be very negative for promotion of OOo in government and civic > environments. We would suggest something like this: "are not recommended for > use in a production environment". One could insert also a "yet". > > These two issues might apply to one of the other two download pages if the > Disclaimer is reused there. > > Just our two cents, > m. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@l10n.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@l10n.openoffice.org
