Re: [libreoffice-users] LTS

Hello James,

Le 12.10.2015 15:25, James E. Lang a écrit :
> This tread has veered sharply off course from the original post thus
> my change of the Subject.
>
> If AOO Issued security and stability updates in a timely manner and if
> they issued a battle tested version of LO every couple of years or so,
> it could serve as a LTS outlet for the bleeding edge LO. This would
> reunify the Open Office community, solve the branding issue, and
> provide a valid purpose for both organizations.
>
> Sadly the essential first premise of that statement has not been true.
>
> Just a thought ....

I've been writing this several times. For *anyone* to deliver a LTS of 
any software, there needs to be a business model generating revenue on 
the LTS version. By which I mean, the one releasing the LTS has to 
generate money directly on the LTS. It does not mean having a LTS is a 
good or bad idea; it just means that there needs to be several (lots of, 
in fact) business cases.

In the case of AOO and LibreOffice -I can safely write about AOO in this 
particular instance- the question would be to know whether any direct 
contributor has an incentive (i.e. paying customers) to release such a 
LTS version? In the specific case of LibreOffice, I believe versions and 
upgrades are offered to paying customers by some of the companies 
employing certified developers. I am not so sure about what's going on 
with AOO. The way you framed your hypothesis, if I got your point right, 
is that the ASF would let the AOO project make a decision about 
releasing AOO as a LTS, implying that the ASF would offer professional 
support. I think it goes against their policies so it may be up to one 
of their sponsors to offer such services. The trouble is in this 
instance, they don't seem to have much developers and even less sponsors 
these days.

Best,

Charles.

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