Hi :)
I really like the rapid development rate. I think it does generate
more
interest and not just amongst the devs.
I have probably been sounding really negative in this thread but i
have to
say that i think everyone here does a fantastic job and LibreOffice is
really quite amazing as a result of all the hard work people put in.
While there are a few long-running issues and new issues sometimes
crop up
when new features (and greater compatibility with MS format) are added
it
seems that most things get sorted out impressively quickly. Joel and
the
QA team (and the devs, of course) deserve applause for getting the
coding
error-rate down to the lowest of any project anywhere.
I do also like the Ubuntu LTS (=long term support) way of having a
special
release every 2 years that focusses primarily on stability and that
for the
next 5 years all bug-patches for any release are ported back to it.
It
also makes a big splash with changes to the UI (UX?) (and under the
bonnet
stuff) and as a result gets tons of coverage in the Press with tons of
articles anticipating what the big changes are going to be and arguing
as
to which is the most important or the most shocking or whatever.
I think that is the only thing missing from LibreOffice. having
something
like an LTS might make it far better for both corporate environments
and
for other people who can't download and install new versions as often
as a
LibreOffice fan with unlimited broadband might.
Regards from
Tom :)
On 6 August 2014 12:56, Charles-H. Schulz <
charles.schulz@documentfoundation.org> wrote:
Nino,
Right on target; I could not have said it better. As for the release
pace
there is a theory that suggests that slowing it to a rearly rythmn
would
decrease the intetest of developers. But that is obviously a theory,
and
cannot be an exact science.
Best,
Charles.
On 6 août 2014 13:50:57 CEST, Nino Novak <nn.libo@kflog.org> wrote:
>Am 06.08.2014 13:07, schrieb Tom Davies:
>
>> So again the question has apparently gone back to "What is the
>advantage of
>> the "Still" branch. Why would people choose it or what circumstances
>would
>> suit "Still" better than "Fresh"?"
>
>The main advantage is its age: it's more mature; it has been in use for
>a
>longer time; people know it better; more questions have been answered
>in all
>the support forums etc.
>
>You see, the main problem is not having two branches, it's having two
>branches which do not differ too much - just half a year. Therefore,
>both
>are rather "fresh", there is no "really mature" version, at least not
>in the
>public.
>
>So the thing to really complain about is the lack of a really mature
>(2-3-4
>years or more) version! Therefore, all the bug fixing etc does not
>really
>improve the stability of the software as branches end their lifetime
>too
>soon after receiving their last bugfix update.
>
>I'm not sure what the effects would be if there was a Long Time Support
>version. Maybe, everybody would switch to this LTS verison and bug
>reporting
>would decrease dramatically. But maybe also, that peoples'
>satisfachtion
>would grow considerably and therefore also commitment and loyalty. Who
>knows?
>
>In a first step I'd very much like the community to decrease the
>release
>frequeny to once a year instead of every 6 months.
>
>Nino
>
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