Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: Download pages for two versions

[Andras Timar <timar74@gmail.com>]

2011/6/2 Marc Paré <marc@marcpare.com>:
> Le 2011-06-02 14:41, Andras Timar a écrit :
>
>>>
>>> I think this should be put to the devs as they are the people who will
>>> decide if they will support previous versions of LibreOffice. Without
>>> their
>>> support we will obvious not be able to maintain different versions or
>>> branches of the suite. I really don't think we will have enough manpower
>>> to
>>> maintain any more than one version. I'll put it on the dev.
>>
>> If you look at the http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan, you
>> can see that at any given point in time there is always a mature
>> product (currenty 3.3.2 soon 3.3.3), a new stable release with
>> features (currently 3.4.0) and the development branch. Critical
>> bugfixes are backported. Life span of a major release is about 8
>> months and these time ranges are overlapping.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Andras
>>
>
> Thanks Andras. I haven't put this to the dev list yet.
>
> So, should we then we make these downloads (mature and stable release)
> available from our main download pages? Once past the 8 months, we could
> have a "legacy" page available for those which are no longer being
> supported.
>
Yes, I think so. It would be terrific, if you could hack or link the
adapt-o-meter (http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Adapt-o-meter.png)
somehow into the download page.

Cheers,
Andras

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