Am 05/31/2012 07:56 PM, schrieb Rob Weir:
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:38 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
On 30.05.2012 22:09, Rob Weir wrote:
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Roberto Galoppini<[email protected]>
wrote:
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
On 22.05.2012 15:21, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote:
[snip]
It looks like we can go with the "static" solution as a short-term
solution.
Thus, I will do the following:
- Creation of a complete XML document
- Include entries for at least one languages for which we have
currently
no AOO
3.4 installation package.
- Providing the XML document and possible variants on [3] for testing
and
verification.
- Call for volunteers to test the XML document at [3].
- Integrate feedback, if we want to have direct download links or links
to
a
certain existing web page for manual download.
- Activate the update service
-- move the final XML document to [4].
-- ask ASF infrastructure team to redirect OOo 3.3 Update URL [5] to
[4].
My goal is to have the update service for OOo 3.3 running at the end of
next week.
Any objections?
Any volunteers in advance which want to test?
If yes, please provide information about your OOo 3.3 installation
(operating
system and language) and the test cases (direct download link, link to
download
page, ...) you want to test.
[3] http://people.apache.org/~orw/testupdateservice/
[4]
http://www.openoffice.org/projects/update36/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
[5]
http://update36.services.openoffice.org/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
I have finished the creation of an XML document. It contains a feed with
entries for all platform and language combinations for which we have an
AOO
3.4 installation package.
Each entry provides a link to web page [6]. This web page is a currently
empty landing page for our OOo 3.3 users. On this page we can provide
information about our new home at the Apache Software Foundation and our
AOO
3.4 release. From here we can direct our OOo 3.3 to our download page
[7].
Hi Oliver,
could we eventually jointly work on a test phase for a fraction of
the user base? Maybe we could enable the auto-updates for a given
language, or so. Actually this could help us to make some realistic
assumptions on the total load, and if needed the necessary adjustments
to ensure the optimal performance.
So, if we know from existing AOO 3.4 downloads that language/platform
X is Y% of the total, then if we test the OOo 3.3 upgrade with only X,
we can project what the total upgrade volume would be. That sounds
reasonable.
Ideally we'd like to start the test phase as soon as possible.
Ok.
Roberto, Rob and Kay are in favor to activate the update service only for a
part of the possible OOo 3.3 instances in order to check, if the traffic can
be handled. No objections from my side.
One important remark which I had not given yet:
When we had the redirect from [5] to [4] established by the ASF
infrastructure team, all (yes, all) installed OOo 3.3 instances in which the
check of updates is initiated will get the XML document. Whose which find an
entry with their data (language, platform, architecture) will state that an
update is available. All the others will state that the OOo 3.3 installation
is up to date.
To start this first phase the following tasks need to be finished:
(1) Choose the OOo 3.3 candidates for the first phase.
-- orw's proposal: italian on all four platforms
(2) Get in contact with the ASF infrastructure team to get the redirect
established at a certain day.
-- orw is volunteering for this task
(3) Fill the landing page [6] with content and links and activate tracking
for this page.
-- at least one volunteer is needed here.
(4) Choose the time frame for the first phase.
-- orw's proposal: 2012-07-05 until 2012-07-08 (if redirect can be
established on Tuesday, 2012-07-05 and task (3) can be finished until
Monday.)
BTW, as we have for each language own entries in the XML document we can
provide translated landing pages if somebody is willing to translate the
"master" landing page.
Is the text in the dialog box in OOo 3.3 localized? The text that
says an update is available, please go to this page to download? Or
is that in English only?
A second ago I've tried it also with German and I get a German text in
the dialog box.
Marcus
One approach might be to have the landing page be the NL home page,
e.g., http://de.openoffice.org. These already exist, and either have
the download links on that page, or have text that explains how to
download. (En is the exception -- we'd send them to
http://download.openoffice.org directly)
To distinguish these visits from non-upgrade visits, we could tag them
using URL parameters in a way that Google Analytics can understand.
For example:
http://www.openoffice.org/download.html?utm_source=OOo3_3&utm_medium=Client&utm_campaign=Upgrade
or
http://www.openoffice.org/de/index.html?utm_source=OOo3_3&utm_medium=Client&utm_campaign=Upgrade
or
http://www.openoffice.org/it/index.html?utm_source=OOo3_3&utm_medium=Client&utm_campaign=Upgrade
The extra parameters would be ignored by our website, but GA would
understand them.
One other question: does this take care of OOo 3.2 upgrades as well?
Do we think there are many out there?
-Rob
[6]
http://www.openoffice.org/projects/update36/ProductUpdateService/index.html
Best regards, Oliver.
