On 2011/04/27 19:48, Marcus Lange wrote:
I know these arguments already from my work. It's typically and normal for an
enterprise environment. However, I'm wondering that someone still use OOo 2.4.1
although 2.4.3 is the most recent and stable from the 2.4 series.
Even when I take your explainations into account I think there must be somthing
else that they hang on 2.4.1.
Yes, the another reason, I guess, might be a balance between cost and benefit.
As you know, they carefully evaluate each version of OpenOffice.org: 2.4.0,
2.4.1, 2.4.2, and 2.4.3.
In the situation where they have been using 2.4.1, how 2.4.2 or 2.4.3 are
attractive from their perspective of view.
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/2.4.2.html
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/2.4.3.html
http://tools.services.openoffice.org/EIS2/GuestLogon
Master Workspaces - Fixed issues per Milestone
2.4.2: OOH680
m18
http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=94654+94656+94652+94653+94685+54715+94585+85168+93298+90071+94663+94664+94666+94668+94808+10000+93119+95064
2.4.3: OOH680
m21
http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=104277+99672+104115+104135+10000+104198
m19
http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=98323+98325+98361+91466+87538+96471+96878
For example, some crash bugs have been fixed in 2.4.2:
93298 Calc 2.4.1 crashes when loading a .sxc file saved by Calc 3.0 beta2
94653 Crash when printing with Lexmark printer
95064 Writer crash after pasting webpage from clipboard
Do they open .sxc file saved by Calc 3.0 beta2?
Do they use a Lexmark printer?
Do they paste webpage onto Writer? And so on.
Cost of upgrading OpenOffice.org is somewhat expensive for them for certain
reasons.
Does the potential benefit that would come from the series of fixes pay for the
cost?
Among 2.4.1, 2.4.2, and 2.4.3, it is okay for them to stay at 2.4.1. Neither
2.4.2 nor 2.4.3 are very attractive for them. So I tend to use a word 2.4.x in
my previous mails, instead of 2.4.3.
OK, let's skip this step. ;-) It's not really important to know all the details
why. There are good reasons not to deploy always the latest and greatest
version and that's absolutely OK.
With your mockup it would be easy to install a really user-friendly download
step, however Andrea do not want to have a big pointer to the achive as we
should point to the recent release. I tend to Andrea's position but maybe it's
possible to make the current link to the archive a bit more visible than now.
As now we have nothing.
I agree with your and Andrea's opinion.
Web interface pointing to legacy versions is not necessarily on the top and/or
front page, rather, it could be somewhere in the backyard.
Best regards,
Tora
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