In news:308716.4509...@web24103.mail.ird.yahoo.com, Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> typed: > ________________________________ > From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions > <webmas...@krackedpress.com> > To: users@libreoffice.org > Sent: Thu, 26 May, 2011 2:15:32 > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: upgrade path? > > On 05/25/2011 08:30 PM, NoOp wrote: >> On 05/25/2011 03:21 PM, Cor Nouws wrote: >>> Tom Davies wrote (25-05-11 23:53) >>>> Lol. >>> Lol too >>> >>>> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan >>> Release cycle of 6 months, does mean in our case >>> approximately 6-7 releases a year. >> ... >> >> No. It means the "final" releases are (I suspect) in >> sync with Ubuntu releases: >> >> <quote> >> 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. </quote> >> >> Seems to indicate that LO are bending over to >> Ubuntu/<possibly other distro> release schedules. Let's >> see... Ubuntu releases are April (hence the LO March >> time) and October (hence the LO September time)... >> >> This was quite apparent with the LO 3.3.2 "release" in >> sync with Ubuntu Natty 11.04 with considerable >> breakage/bugs still in LO 3.3. Please tell me that I'm >> wrong. > well 3.4 is scheduled to be out around June 1st. We are > on RC2 right now. > > 3.3.0 was LO's first release version and it came out > before OOo did and was better, plus a lot of legacy > coding was fixed. Every release has some of that old, > unused, bad, or clunky coding repaired, replaced, etc., > so future edits would not be dependent on the old legacy > stuff not messing up the new stuff. Sun and Oracle both > had that problem. LO's developers do not have the > problem of "wasting" man-hours on fixing code that was > not done properly in the first place. Our developers > both started cleaning up the legacy coding and put out a > better product than Oracle did, plus beat them to the > release date. This is not our statements, but tech > publication reviews and articles stating this. > > As for trying to have our releases timed with repository > upgrading? Well it may be something for the scheduling > people to use for getting dates. It does take time to > get the release packages listed on the LibreOffice > download sites to be "converted" for repository > updating/upgrading cycles. I do not know how much time > it would take, but 3.3.0 came out in the beginning of the > year, and then a few months later Ubuntu and others > announced that they will add LibreOffice > 3.3.x to their repositories and then drop OOo as their > default installed office suite. > > As for "still having bugs"; well 99% of all software for > the PC market has bugs in their release versions. No one > can find them all. Some are found by accident due to > weird interaction with specific data or actions created > by a user. We are no better, and hopefully no worse, > than other software developers when it comes to bugs. Of > course, we do not charge you to buy our software and do > its best to own up to any bugs found, unlike some > companies that most of us know and hate. Open Source > software may seem to some as having more bugs than their > paid alternatives, but the open source community are more > open about these things and will not tell you that you > are at fault and not their high priced software. This > openness also makes it easier to find the cause of the > bug and get it fixed faster and better. > > As for fixed schedules for software releases???? > If the developers have version 3.4.4 list of work > finished a month early, they could start the RC process > early, and not wait. So people could see a new > version/update out quicker than schedules, or if problems > arise even have it out later. 3.4 was originally due out > mid May, but it will be late May or first thing in June. > No big deal. Of course we are not waiting for the Fall > to introduce the 3.4 version and keeping the 3.3.x > numbers going and going till then. > > That is my opinion - what is yours?
Hi Tom, Well written, well worded and good reading article. Libre Office is indeed a valuable application by my own experience too and I'm quite happy to see it doing well. I'm especially happy to see that simple early-on bugs that were ignored in OOo were taken as tasks right away; For me it's one step closer to dropping MS Office completely. I expect that to happen in the upcoming release 4. It's a great trip so far! HTH, Twayne` -- 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
