Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users?

On 06/03/2012 05:40 AM, Mirosław Zalewski wrote:
> On 02/06/2012 at 23:29, "webmaster-Kracked_P_P"<webmaster@krackedpress.com>
> wrote:
>
> > The real big thing is how ready is this line to be used for business
> > users.  During the 3.3.x and 3.4.x line crossover, you keep getting told
> > that this version is ready and that version is not.
> I think you are trying to find some universal criteria of "business-readiness",
> which simply does not exist.
>
> Let's say that LO 3.6.0 has some serious bug in one of Calc's economical
> functions. Does it make it not ready for business users? It depends. If you
> are copywriter, who runs Calc few times in a month just to sum some numbers,
> then you can freely start using 3.6.0. If your job involves stock market, then
> perhaps you will prefer to stay with earlier version and wait for 3.6.x with
> bug fixed to come out.
>
> For academic writers, virtually none of OOo/LO is ready for business user due
> to poor bibliography management implementation (although you can use some
> other bibliographic management software, e.g. Zotero or Mendeley, with
> success).
>
> There is no simple answer for that question. Perhaps most conservative users
> should stick with 3.x.6 releases - as latest in each line, they have lowest
> number of bugs.
>
> If you have time, you can check what bugs are know and what are fixed for each
> release. When there are no bugs known in procedures you are using, then
> perhaps you can mark that version as "ready for business users".

Right now, the web site makes you do a lot of clicking on new links to 
get to a different version of LO than the one that automatically given 
to you, which is the most cutting edge.  In a few months when 3.6.0 
comes out, I bet we will get that one as the "recommended" version over 
the 3.5.5 version.

Yes, each personal and business user will have to make their own choices 
on which version to use.  What we must do is make it easier to choose 
and give them an easy way to make that choice.  The feature page for the 
3.4.x line does not have a bug report link, while 3.5.x does.

Can there ever be a list of features and a side by side "check-mark"  
stating if 3.4.6 and/or 3.5.x can do that listed feature/option?  That 
would help the business user, and others, choose which version to try/use.

I do not have the Print to Tray "x" issue, since my non-default trays 
are all manual feeding trays [except my new printer that can have 10+ 
sheets in the manual feeding tray].  There are other issues that look 
bad for some of my business users, that I have given DVDs to, but I do 
not know enough of all the features they would use LO for to decide for 
myself if the current like is ready for them.  Most of my users would 
not know that you never use a x.x.0 version for their use in business 
and personal work that cannot have downtime for "new line" bugs.


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