Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Silent Updates

Hi Florian, all,

(taking advantage of discussion so far..)

Florian Monfort wrote (27-12-12 11:34)

> I've seen a lot of browsers recently moving towards silent updates.
>
> I was wondering whether this could be a relevant approach for LibreOffice
> or not.

Changes in office suites can have far more impact...
So it's not for nothing that both power users and companies won't like it.

But of course, just as our current update notification, it would be 
quite easy to make it - whenever it comes through - optional.

> Indeed I've seen many people complaining about LibreOffice features, UI
> etc. While using LibreOffice 3.4... Of course the first advice is "just
> upgrade" but for people I doesn't seem like such a good think to do, just
> like it somewhat scares them. I'm pretty sure that happens with at least
> half of our userbase.

Since the difficulties in getting to silent updates (it's not yet 
technically close; it should be turned off by default, so then how to 
convince people that they turn it on ;-) .. ) I would propose another 
view at the current situation: every opportunity to explain users 
something is a chance for communication and thus better mutual 
understanding :-)

> What do you guys think? I think this would improve the overall quality of
> our userbase making sure that almost everyone has the very last stable
> version, with all the fixes and improvements it brings.
>
> Plus, for once we wouldn't be copying MS Office...

Hmm, there are for sure cases in which we did not, and also the other 
way round happens!

Cheers,

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 - Cor
 - http://nl.libreoffice.org
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