I'd like to move forward now with this proposal from July. I've updated the EOL page here to say that OOo 3.3.0 and earlier are no longer supported. That page also explains what this means.
http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/eol.html I'll start to do the other 3 items now. I'll coordinate with Oliver on the update notifications. Of course, help on any of these items is welcome. Regards, -Rob On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Shenfeng Liu <liush...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2013/7/19 Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> > >> We currently have this link from the download page,from 2009, >> announcing end-of-life for OpenOffice.org 2.x: >> >> http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/eol.html >> >> I'd like to update that page to also state that 3.x version prior to >> 3.4.x are also end-of-life. Why? We're unlikely to issue any more >> security patches for 3.3.0 or earlier. >> >> So the concrete proposal is: >> >> 1) Update the eol.html page to state that OOo 3.3.0 and earlier are no >> longer supported. >> >> 2) Create a new landing page for users of OOo 3.3.0 and before who are >> using a language version that we do not yet have a translation. >> Explain in this page that the earlier versions are no longer >> supported. List what translations are currently available and where >> they can be downloaded from. Give information on how they can >> volunteer to help translate AOO into their native language. >> >> 3) Configure the update notification server to OOo 3.3.0 users to this >> new landing page, if their language is not already translated. (Where >> there is a translation we already point them to the download page) >> >> 4) Blog post/announcement on end-of-life for OOo 3.3.0 and earlier. >> >> The end result is that: 1) We made it clear what versions are >> supported. 2) We did our due diligence to reach out to users of older >> versions. 3) We encourage new translation volunteers. >> >> No rush on this. It does not need to be done at the same time as the >> 4.0 announcement. It can follow a week or so later. >> >> -Rob >> > > > +1 > > - Shenfeng (Simon) > > > > >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
