Hi All 2011/6/17 Michael Meeks <michael.meeks@novell.com>
Hi Cor, On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 20:00 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote:Wrt. the upgrade paths we recommend - we can work that out later ofcourseNot so sure if that is a wise approach.Hey :-) so - first off, the plan is to only shipping the capability of notifying for an update without immediately lighting up the update recommendation server. Also - since we are shipping it only in one version 3.4.1 - there is nothing to update to anyway ( unless you count 3.3.3 ;-). So the net effect will be (I think) nothing. We have a week+ to shake out any bugs in it.This feature often brought no joy. Wrong information, not available url's etc. I guess there is some work needed to make it work properly. Either in the code, or on the server side...Sure - so, as I understand it, the server is notified of the client version, so we can build whatever matrix we like of recommended upgrades (or none at all), based on the version they are using. That seems flexible enough for what we want - and of course, we can decide that matrix with some considerable thought later.Indeed, above the already mentioned problem, we have the challenge to make sure that the right user does find the right version for her situation.Of course - and we also have the existing challenge that people are not updated, and are running old LibreOffice's with plenty of known bugs fixed in them. ie. if we care about quality we want people to update through release series .0 -> .1 -> .2 etc. Clearly sysadmins need to be able to turn this off, as no doubt we'll do for the SUSE, RedHat, Ubuntu etc. versions - but that is not a huge issue. So - is there still a problem ?
Yes I think, but it can be solved by a twist on some bits: LO 3.4.x is in a different path than LO3.3.x . Shall LO3.5.x be in a different path than LO3.4.x? In user space, this means as if a new product landed, with noise on icons associations, double entries of LO in Start Menu, bla bla bla. In enterprise space, a bunch of disgruntled sysadmins to wipe old version. This old update scheme may cause a bunch of headaches. (sysadmin dream: update LO as easy as update FireFox) Kind regards -- Olivier Hallot Founder and Steering Commitee Member The Document Foundation