Hi all,
I'm writing this, as I'm really worried about the quality of our current
(or upcoming) versions.
Shure, we have no (or close to none) reported stopper for the RC, but is
this enough to say "we have build, that is good for releasing to the
enduser"? Honestly speaking .. not to me.
I cannot tell about the english (or better said non-german) users. But
reading the german user lists, beiing at local events and speaking with
users, they have often troubles with funktionality, that works not as
expected. They cannot tell, if they are doing something wrong, or if OOo
is broken.
The first time, they find such a problem, this meight be their own
fault. The second time .. ok, may happen. But the thirt fourth and fith
time they start to ask, if the software is ready to use.
So, no matter, if we have stoppers or not, the user "feels" that the
software has bugs and in saome cases, users are hurt by those bugs and
will move away. More worse .. they are beginning to spread the word.
Ok, that's all about feelings, but there are also facts. We have a lot
of bugs in our current and upcoming release. We always had, but let's
look at some numbers.
In OOo 1.0.1, 464 bugs have been fixed in OOo 1.0.2 - 165, OOo 1.1.3 - 63
At the moment we have 1714(!) bugs with target 2.0.1 plus 619 with
target 2.0.2.
That means, if we do release as planned, we will *know* that we have
quite the same amount of bugs, as we fixed in 1.1. codeline.
And this would not be in a .0 release, but in .1.
Btw.: 72 Issues are of Prio 2, what means, they occure in main
functionality, cause crashes and/or data loss.
In addition to that, we have close to 1000 unconfirmed issues. Another
potential risk.
So .. if you ask, if we have stoppers: no, we don't have
If you ask (as a user) if I would advice to use OOo 2 in production use,
I'd rather say nothing, as I cannot tell if you were hit by one of the
many bugs.
Ok, this all said, should provide some of the reasons, why I think, we
should delay OOo 2.0.1 (or even "virtually skip it"). Of course, what is
currently planned for 2.0.1 is better than what we have with 2.0.0. But
I still think, it is not enough to keep the image of a software, that's
quality is good enough for production use.
I'm fully aware, that such a decision would have impact on several
groups inside and outside the project. So I'd like to have input:
- what's going on on the english user lists?
- what is the native lang community thinking?
- has marketing some ideas?
- comments from developers?
In Koper, the council discussed the revival of the release committe and
put some names on it. I'd ask all who have been named there to give
comments. Unfortunately, there have not been much responses to my recent
mails.
(All others are welcome to answer as well).
André
PS.: all that said, I still think, that developers and all the other
community members do a great job and that we are able to deliver a great
software.
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