Hello Joost,
Le 26 juin 08 à 18:17, Joost Andrae a écrit :
Hi Charles,
Without dwelling too much on this, I think that what you describe
is good, efficient, but falls behind the point. It would be better
if each language could simply have the update notification on and
working, regardless of Sun's coverage.
that would be possible if all build providers include that feature
at build time. That is not the case. On the other hand the product
update service requires manual interaction it does not work like
magic.
That's an important information: it thus means that if Clytie's or
Leif's builds have not the feature of automatic update notification
working, it is because it was not included at build time and/or it's
not been activated.
We have to distinguish two levels of notification (NB: I'm not
talking about the automatic, incremental update that we do not have
on OOo):
- notification of the new version regardless of the localization
readiness. That could even be configured automatic update of
developers' build (see Firefox)
That should already be the case for en-US developer snapshots.
Language packs are not notified (AFAIK).
- notification of the new, localized version which ultimately rests
on the localized build maintainer's ability to launch the
notification procedure.
Update notification of releases can be done if
1. the build has the update notification feature included/activated
2. the build has been distributed to the mirrors
3. a) the Bouncer links work
b) a localized landing page is available
eg.
http://update.services.openoffice.org/ooo/index_fr.html
4. the build has been tested and approved for distribution
I think that's what the issue here. Do you think we can change it?
If there would be enough disk space on the mirror network I believe
Sun could provide a lot of more localizations as full builds and it
would be possible to lower the requirements to get a full build.
Thank you for these ideas. I think -but others are welcome to comment-
that the problem is not that Sun does or does not provide all the
builds, it is that the feature at handshall always be included at
build time and activated (for sake of clarity, do you have any how-to
for those two actions?). We need to work on that first. The
propagation to the mirrors, the bouncer question and the release
clearance are pretty obvious perequisites I think but I may be wrong.
Thank you,
Charles.
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