Re: [libreoffice-users] Update to 3.6.1

       Thanks for your response.

       This makes me so glad that I do not upgrade anything immediately -
           I'd rather wait until all the kinks are removed.



On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 4:46 AM, Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Hi :)
> Reason for so many problems in last couple of weeks is the new release of
> a new branch of LO.
>
> Each new branch should try to add as much functionality as it reasonably
> can to attract new people and to give the devs a chance to really show-off
> and get on with interesting things.  Unfortunately the side-effect is that
> unexpected things and often completely unrelated things that 'shouldnt' be
> affected sometimes go wrong.  Roughly the equivalent of going out to buy an
> ice-cream and getting back to find a magpie built a nest in your filing
> cabinet.
>
> As a branch matures the devs fix those problems (and longer-standing
> issues) and include their fixes in the "service packs".  So 3.6.1 is likely
> to have less problems and then the 3.6.2 has even less and so on until it
> reaches around 3.6.4.
>
> But by then it has become less exciting to work on so a lot of the devs
> will have drifted over to new functionality that will be added in the next
> new branch.  Not all devs want exciting new toys, many have a tendency to
> worry a specific problem to death but that can often become an unhealthy
> obsession too.  A fresh pair of eyes can sometimes spot where a dev has
> managed to shake something loose and come up with a simpler answer.
>
> After months of detailed work on a specific issue a dev might then be into
> chasign shiny new toys for a while (or just leave the project and run
> screaming from the room).  Hopefully people that chase shiny new toys
> sometimes get sucked into getting bogged down in a single issue again.  For
> some people i would guess that's a repeating cycle.
>
> Of course many of the companies that support LO do invest employee
> dev-time into LO and they get a lot less choice about what they work on, so
> their burn-out rates are probably higher.
>
> Just my thoughts really.  Any stereotype fails in the light of reality.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
> From: anne-ology <laginnis@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Update to 3.6.1
> To: "Dan" <elderdanlewis@gmail.com>
> Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org, "Tom" <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>
> Date: Thursday, 30 August, 2012, 22:47
>
>        so I'm using both 32 & 64 on this machine ???
>
>        ok, I believe you;
>             now just another question -
>             could this be the reason for so many bugs? -
>                [seems as if this list has been listing quite a few
> recently, some I've never even seen  ???]
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Dan 
> <elderdanlewis@gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=elderdanlewis@gmail.com>>
> wrote:
>
>      I believe that Tom and I were talking about LibreOffice on Windows. I
> > have a 64 bit computer which had VISTA running until I replace that with
> > Ubuntu. But LO does not have a 64 bit LO version which I thought was the
> > train of thought.
> >
> > --Dan
> >
> > anne-ology wrote:
> >
> > >         You've been mis-informed - WIN does have 64.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Dan 
> > > <elderdanlewis@gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=elderdanlewis@gmail.com>wrote:
> > >
> > >           As far as I know, only Windows does not have a 64 bit version.
> > >     Linux has 64 bit version for both DEB and RPM. The following is the
> > >     folder containing the installation files for LO 3.6.1.2 The Java I
> use
> > >     is also 64 bit that I get from the Ubuntu Repository (OpenJDK Java
> 6)
> > >     with all the patches.
> > >
> > >     LibO_3.6.1.2_Linux_x86-64___**install-deb_en-US
> > >
> > >     --Dan
> > >
> > >
> > >     Tom Davies wrote:
> > >
> > >         Hi :)
> > >         LibreOffice doesn't have a 64bit version and allegedly needs
> java
> > >         to be 32 bit too.
> > >         Regards from
> > >         Tom :)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >         From: Peter Hillier-Brook <phb@hbsys.plus.com<http://mc/compose?to=phb@hbsys.plus.com>
> > >         Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Update to 3.6.1
> > >         To: 
> > > users@global.libreoffice.org<http://mc/compose?to=users@global.libreoffice.org><mailto:
> users@global.**
> > > libreoffice.org 
> > > <users@global.libreoffice.org<http://mc/compose?to=users@global.libreoffice.org>
>
> > >         Date: Wednesday, 29 August, 2012, 22:05
> > >         On 29/08/12 18:50, Tom Davies wrote:
> > >
> > >             Hi :) Errr, on the 64bit Ubuntu is the java also 64bit?  If
> > > it is
> > >             then can you try installing a 32 bit version of 1.6_32?  LO
> > > can be
> > >             told which version of java to use so it might work Tools -
> > >             Options -
> > >             Java Regards from Tom :)
> > >
> > >
> > >         That sounds like Windows solution! :-)
> > >
> > >         Peter HB

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