Re: [libreoffice-website] Fwd: Download - "Safe for ... most users and enterprises"

Another note on this specific subject:

Microsoft Office is much more BUGGY than LibreOffice, observed that... :)

Alex.

Em 12/11/2011 16:43, Christian Lohmaier escreveu:
> Hi Flo, *;
>
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Florian Effenberger
> <floeff@documentfoundation.org>  wrote:
> > I just got this feedback via e-mail and thought I'd pass it on to this list.
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: Download - "Safe for ... most users and enterprises"
> > Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:12:32 +1300
> > To: floeff@documentfoundation.org
> >
> > Thanks for your regular updates on the announce list, much appreciated.
> >
> > Just a little confused about this message attached to a *final*
> > release on the Downloads page mentioned in your last email.
> >
> > "LibreOffice 3.4.4 Final (2011-11-09)
> > Safe for production use by most users and enterprises."
> >
> > Is the phrase - "Safe for ... most users and enterprises" - explained
> > any where please?
> "Safe" in this case doesn't mean "secure" (all builds are considered
> equally secure/we wouldn't release a build with known security
> vulnerabilities) or in "no data loss" (all released builds don't
> contain any known bugs where it is easy to loose data) but "safe" in
> the sense of "doesn't contain bugs that a user will likely hit in
> daily business".
>
> LO uses a release early, release often schedule, thus the X.Y.0 or
> X.Y.1 versions might still contain known bugs that affect a certain
> user group, but not the casual user.
> Thus when a release is not labeled "safe", you are *strongly*
> encouraged to review the "known issues" section in the release notes
> whether you are likely to hit the known bugs in your daily use. If the
> bug is in impress, but you never use impress, you can use it. If the
> bug is in some database reports, but you don't use the database, you
> can use it. If the bug is when exporting to<some exotic format>, and
> you never save to those, you can use it,....
>
> If you want to deploy it in bigger scale, where you don't know what
> features your user will use, then wait for the "safe" builds that
> don't contain known bugs that would cause trouble because a feature is
> non-functional/so buggy that you would have to use awkward
> workarounds.
>
> And last but not least: as the release will be in use by many "brave"
> people already, it will have some testing in the wild - as you cannot
> test every possible use case before releasing a build, this will
> further ensure that the "known bugs" are not narrowly scoped to
> "whatever functionality the QA folks did bother to check", but really
> "known bugs" in the sense of "thousands of users don't have a problem
> with LibreOffice"
>
> If anyone feels like writing this up to some general-purpose
> description to put on the website: Feel free to convert the above to
> some nice-sounding words :))
>
> ciao
> Christian

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