Lol. I'm not exactly sure how your post helps the original question. My "complete nonsense" is from the TDF wiki. http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan "... we will necessarily release earlier, and then rapidly, incrementally bug fix releases based on the previous stable version. Thus if you have a need for the very highest quality version, it can make sense to defer a move until the first or perhaps second minor point release.
Synchronizing our time based release schedule with the wider Free Software ecosystem also has huge advantages, by getting our new features, out to users as quickly as possible - with a minimum of distribution cycle lag. In consequence, we will aim at six monthly releases, and over time nudge them to align well with the March / September norms." Note the bit where it says "it can make sense to defer a move" and the bit where it says about moving to a 6monthly release cycle? LibreOffice is not so flaky that it fails to work after a couple of months and 'must' be upgraded. It keeps working. Please, you do a lot of good work for TDF and there is no need to spoil that with personal attacks in public, spamming the list (ironically). People run different systems in different ways for different reasons. OpenSource is about giving people freedom OF choice. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Cor Nouws <oo...@nouenoff.nl> To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Wed, 25 May, 2011 20:14:43 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] upgrade path? Tom Davies wrote (25-05-11 19:04) > I heard/saw somewhere that although there is currently a rapid and frequent (ie > very aggressive) release cycle at the moment that there is an intention to slow > down to 6monthly releases at some point within the next year or so. Personally This is completely nonsense. Let me more or less repeat myself: pls stop writing about things that you do not know pretty sure that your ideas are true. You spread a lot of ... > i just stick with an older release (3.3.1 on most machines) but if i need to > upgrade i tend to try to fit the downloads onto Cd or usb-stick so that i can > carry it to various different machines. > > There is rarely any real need to upgrade. Just because it is there doesn't >mean > you have to use it! A useful attitude in an open source project is the opposite. > Regards from > Tom :) > > PS i just checked and my current Ubuntu is on 3.3.2 somehow, magically. Well well ... Cor -- - http://nl.libreoffice.org - giving openoffice.org its foundation :: The Document Foundation - -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted