On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Joost Andrae <joost.and...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi, > > >> >> On the top chart each "hump" is one week, with peaks midweek and lower >> volume on the weekend. As you can see, we've had a significant >> increase in volume this last week, as we gradually rolled out the >> upgrade notifications. Daily volume had been 90-110K before. Now it >> is 170-190K/day. > > > so it's about the half we had with OOo. Not a bad number. > > >> >> The upgrade strategy was to do this in three stages: >> >> 1. Roll out update notifications to OOo 3.3 installs for the 15 >> languages we support in AOO 3.4 >> >> 2. Roll out notifications to the remaining OOo 3.3 installs >> >> 3. Roll out notifications to OOo 3.2 installs >> >> So far, we've done this first step. >> > > and this is a great effort. In the past we had a web service (using a > database) that coordinated the update rollout for each version number/build > id. Maybe it's a good idea to create a similar service just to please the > admin who has to service flags for each version and localization. I know > this work can be pain in the a** and every automation pleased me when I did > this at Sun and at Oracle. >
Or even an ODF spreadsheet with a script that generates the needed check.Update XML from it. What we have now is very manual, and because of that is error prone. > >> This was a team effort, with volunteers involved in reverse >> engineering the upgrade XML formats, preparing the XML for the >> downloads, ensuring sufficient bandwidth capacity, redirecting URL's, >> etc. So thanks, everyone, for the great success here! > > > +1 > > Kind regards, Joost > > >
