A water-mark on new documents that directs people to find "official" distributions on the web site? The water-mark will be taken off when AOO is out of beta and an official release is available. At the least this would require those who want to just redistribute know enough programming to make it inconvenient for them.
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 3/7/14 4:33 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On 3/7/14 4:21 PM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> On 07.03.2014 15:22, Rob Weir wrote: > >>>> Evidently we're already released, on some websites at least: > >>>> > >>>> > http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Office/Office-Suites/Apache-OpenOffice-253.shtml > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> How much do we care about this? The risk, I suppose, is on > >>>> Softpedia, that we could find a last-minute defect in the NOTICE or > >>>> other legal files, and they find themselves distributing a package > >>>> that is not correct. But the practical risk there is small. > >>>> > >>>> The greater risk is to users, that we find a last-minute fatal bug > >>>> that causes us to cancel the vote, but there are versions of the > >>>> Release Candidate still floating around. That can hurt the AOO > >>>> reputation if that happened. > >>>> > >>>> I'm not sure we can prevent this from happening, and still have an > >>>> open and transparent voting process. But maybe there is something we > >>>> can do to discourage it? > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> softpedia is not the only one: > >>> - http://www.chip.de/downloads/OpenOffice_14324674.html > >>> - http://www.computerbase.de/downloads/office/ > >>> > >> > >> I think we can create a blog explaining the voting procedure and make > >> clear where we are in the process and that it is the RC of the Beta > only. > >> > > > > Or maybe a disclaimer in the voting thread email? Next time we could > > say something like: > > > > "Note: All Apache releases require a vote of the PMC lasting at > > least 72-hours. We do not officially release until after that vote > > has concluded. We appreciate the enthusiasm of our users and 3rd > > party distributors and their efforts to publicize our releases and > > share them with a broader audience. But we ask that you do not > > publicize a release until the vote has concluded and the vote results > > posted. This is for the safety of the users. It is always possible > > for a last minute defect to be reported in a Release Candidate causing > > us to cancel an in-progress vote. in fact this has occurred before. > > So be safe and wait for the release process to conclude." > > > > I'm guessing that they hear about the RC from the email list, not the > > wiki, so it might make sense to put a message like this in the vote > > email. > > > > +1, already marked and I will add it the next time. But for this time we > can put this text in a blog. Opinions? > > Juergen > > > > -Rob > > > > > >> But I don't know if this would really help to avoid confusion. > >> > >> Juergen > >> > >> > >>> > >>> Best regards, Oliver. > >>> > >>>> -Rob > >>>> > >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >>>> > >>> > >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >>> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
