Re: [libreoffice-website] Improving download page

Hi Anders,

Anders Holbøll wrote (11-02-12 21:24)

> I believe that 3.5.0 should be advertised as the default recommended
> version. If it isn't ready for that, I would assume that the developers
> had put out another release candidate!

I guess the developers think it's ready for the release.
Compared with the unhandy situation around the 3.4.0 and because of 
changes in the process, more QA, and since the project/developed evolved 
quite a bit, we may expect that.
Still, that's my impression and I'm not a really involved developer.

> I think we can assume that the project will get quite some press
> coverage for the 3.5 release (at least more than for the 3.5.1 release).
> So it makes no sense to spoil that, by saying to people that it isn't
> quite ready after all, when they come to download the software.

Agree.

> That will just cause confusion and insecurity.
>
> I would think that the newest major release is for end-users and the
> previous major is for "enterprises" (and if they want the previous
> release, they will know, know why and know to look for it). But I have
> been confused by LibreOffice's messaging on this, even though I am a
> developer (not a LO-dev, just a end-user).

As you may notice, we look for ways how to bring this message to our 
download pages. Which already tend to be cluttered because of 
unavoidable extra download links / choices.

Thanks for your input on this. And the technical stuff in the other mail 
too! (which I hope others will pick up.)

In cane you have the 'one cures all' solution for our download page, 
feel welcome to share :-)

Regards,


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