Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [Libreoffice] Preparing announcement of the 3.4.2 release

Hi :)
I think the more complicated it is to guess at which release are "enterprise 
ready" and which are "for early adopters" then the more likely the corporate 
boys are to avoid LO entirely.

The way Ubuntu does it by having a regular LTS release every 2 years with 6 
monthly releases inbetween makes it very clear.  I'm not sure it would work with 
LO since releases necessarily happen vastly faster than that.  


Couldn't the advanced features  that have proven to be stable in the 3.4.x line 
be added to the 3.3.x line?  Then it would be easy for non-devs to understand.

Regards from
Tom :)




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From: Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com>
To: Cor Nouws <oolst@nouenoff.nl>
Cc: marketing@global.libreoffice.org; libreoffice-dev 
<libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org>
Sent: Tue, 26 July, 2011 10:58:06
Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [Libreoffice] Preparing  announcement of 
the 3.4.2 release

On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 11:23 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote:
>     As explained in my initial mail, the term came up in the discussion 
> around the 3.4.0 release. Since we say that a point-zero release 
> definitely is not to be used in enterprise environments, that also hold 
> the expectation that we can advise a later version as such.

If the criteria is a rule of thumb of avoid automatically switching over
to X.Y.Z where Z == 0, then that's fair enough, seeing as that's a sort
of global rule of thumb for software :-)

>     If you see it as exact science: yes. But I do not see labelling a 
> version as 'enterprise ready' as that.

Hmm, exact science sounds so much better to me than arbitrary
gut-feeling.

C.


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