[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Of "business ready use" and bugs in LibreOffice and a LibreOffice LTS

2012-06-06 Thread Marc Paré
Hi Charles, Le 2012-06-06 11:28, Charles-H.Schulz a écrit : Hello Marc, Le mercredi 06 juin 2012 à 11:04 -0400, Marc Paré a écrit : Le 2012-06-06 06:12, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : Interesting ideas here... I wonder how we could plot this with respect to our existing resources. The key issue

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Of "business ready use" and bugs in LibreOffice and a LibreOffice LTS

2012-06-06 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Tim, Marc, To be sure: we all want to have such an incremental upgrade mechanism. We all know it' s a real PITA, devs, qa testers, localizers, etc. We have inherited from a very problematic codebase and things do not happen overnight. But I am confident they will happen. Best, Charles. Le 6 juin

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Of "business ready use" and bugs in LibreOffice and a LibreOffice LTS

2012-06-06 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
On 06/06/2012 11:28 AM, Charles-H.Schulz wrote: Hello Marc, Le mercredi 06 juin 2012 à 11:04 -0400, Marc Paré a écrit : Le 2012-06-06 06:12, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : Interesting ideas here... I wonder how we could plot this with respect to our existing resources. The key issue here is reso

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Of "business ready use" and bugs in LibreOffice and a LibreOffice LTS

2012-06-06 Thread Charles-H.Schulz
Hello Marc, Le mercredi 06 juin 2012 à 11:04 -0400, Marc Paré a écrit : > Le 2012-06-06 06:12, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : > > Interesting ideas here... I wonder how we could plot this with respect to > > our existing resources. The key issue here is resources . LTS only makes > > sense if you de

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Of "business ready use" and bugs in LibreOffice and a LibreOffice LTS

2012-06-06 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2012-06-06 06:12, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : Interesting ideas here... I wonder how we could plot this with respect to our existing resources. The key issue here is resources . LTS only makes sense if you derive revenue from it.I think we could relabel one branch as LTS, the older one if it

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Of "business ready use" and bugs in LibreOffice and a LibreOffice LTS

2012-06-06 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
tall for every new version coming out, >>> but >>> some "patch" release changing a .3 to a .4 version. Hopefully that will >>> happen before the end of the year. If not by then, hopefully it is as >>> soon >>> as possible after that. That wil

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Of "business ready use" and bugs in LibreOffice and a LibreOffice LTS

2012-06-06 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
o support. Also it seems the overlap period will be far greater, unless they switch to only doing LTSes every 4 years to be more in-line with MS. Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 5/6/12, Craig Olofson wrote: From: Craig Olofson Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Of "business ready us

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Of "business ready use" and bugs in LibreOffice and a LibreOffice LTS

2012-06-06 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Marc, 2012/6/5 Marc Paré > Hi Charles, > > Le 2012-06-05 09:12, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : > > Thank you for bringing that up, it's an interesting discussion. Here's >> what I think reading your message. You're asking in fact two questions. >> One of which might already have been answere

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Of "business ready use" and bugs in LibreOffice and a LibreOffice LTS

2012-06-06 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
;> Thanks :) I think that reinforces what Marc Pare is saying about needing >> more than a month or so support. Also it seems the overlap period will be >> far greater, unless they switch to only doing LTSes every 4 years to be >> more in-line with MS. >> Regards from >

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Of "business ready use" and bugs in LibreOffice and a LibreOffice LTS

2012-06-05 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
ct: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Of "business ready use" and bugs in LibreOffice and a LibreOffice LTS To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org Date: Tuesday, 5 June, 2012, 21:46 Fyi Canonical changed LTS support for the desktop from 3 to 5 years, starting with 12.04, to better accommodate

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Of "business ready use" and bugs in LibreOffice and a LibreOffice LTS

2012-06-05 Thread Tom Davies
, Craig Olofson wrote: From: Craig Olofson Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Of "business ready use" and bugs in LibreOffice and a LibreOffice LTS To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org Date: Tuesday, 5 June, 2012, 21:46 Fyi Canonical changed LTS support for the desktop from 3

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Of "business ready use" and bugs in LibreOffice and a LibreOffice LTS

2012-06-05 Thread Craig Olofson
1 year overlap is so important to Ubuntu. Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 5/6/12, Marc Paré wrote: From: Marc Paré Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Of "business ready use" and bugs in LibreOffice and a LibreOffice LTS To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org Date: Tuesday, 5 June

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Of "business ready use" and bugs in LibreOffice and a LibreOffice LTS

2012-06-05 Thread Tom Davies
running an unsupported LTS while they were still testing the new one.  Now i understand why the 1 year overlap is so important to Ubuntu.  Regards from Tom :)  --- On Tue, 5/6/12, Marc Paré wrote: From: Marc Paré Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Of "business ready use" a

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Of "business ready use" and bugs in LibreOffice and a LibreOffice LTS

2012-06-05 Thread Marc Paré
Hi Charles, Le 2012-06-05 09:12, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : Thank you for bringing that up, it's an interesting discussion. Here's what I think reading your message. You're asking in fact two questions. One of which might already have been answered by a few of our corporate members/sponsors. *