On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > 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. >
And here is a draft of the landing page we'd send users to who have an older version of OOo if there is not an AOO version in their language: http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/eol-nl.html Regards, -Rob > 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
