Re: [libreoffice-users] development & releases

On 01/22/2011 09:58 AM, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote:
> hi,
>
> Le 22/01/2011 15:47, Tom Davies a écrit :
> > 1.  Beat them to the finish line.
>
> no. Don't bother. LibreOffice needs to be (very) good, not be 
> first-and-not-so-good.
>
> > 2.  Keep aware of what they are doing, odd stats can help sometimes
>
> yes.
>
> > 3.  Keep going the way we have been, rapid growth and development in
> > infra-structure and support along with excellent coding development
>
> yesssss !
>
> > 4.  Keep co-operating as long as they let us.
>
> well...
>
> > After initial release we wil, of course, keep developing in all areas 
> > so rushing
> > final release and getting it out there wouldn't hurt us.  We don't 
> > have to worry
> > about corporate clients right now but they do.  So a 2nd release in 
> > another
> > couple of months wouldn't hurt us but it's almost unthinkable for them.
>
> Just keep up with the good work! Never forget the libre software 
> motto: "Release early, release often".
>
> :)
I hate the corporate pressure to hurry up and get it done as
quickly as possible.  I use to do mainframe programming
for a business that has that same mindset.

I do not know what will happen to OpenOffice.org's "quality"
of software and its usability with Oracle's pushing it.  Too many
packages, in the past, have been turned into something not
as good when a large business took over the company that
owned and developed it.  Some were useless for me after a
few years.  I hope OOo does not go that way.  I am almost
positive that LibreOffice will not go that route.

I started using OOo back when they did not have .doc support.
I loved it for Windows.  A few years back I used OOo 99% of
the time and in Feb '10 I went full time to Ubuntu, so I went to
OOo.  Now that Oracle owns OOo's name and such, I added
LibreOffice to me desktop.  I use it as much as OOo now.  I
may dump OOo, if it goes the way of a lot of software I
use to use.

I know I will be letting all my friends, family, and former clients
know about using LibreOffice as soon as a final release is out.
I also assume that OOo's extensions work with LibreO.  That
way there will no problem with their favorite additions for OOo
to be included with LibreO installation.

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