On 9 November 2012 22:50, Marcus (OOo) <marcus.m...@wtnet.de> wrote: > Am 11/09/2012 10:30 PM, schrieb jan iversen: > > Hi. >> >> In order to make life easier (more stable) for translators, I think it >> would be a good idea to "isolate" developer builds on dev. When we have >> langauge packs integrated, then we could point to them from l10n, with a >> thick note, stating they are only there for testing the language. >> > > I don't know what you mean with this. But I thought of a page like the > download/other.html. > Sorry for not being clear....it was just because rob wrote, that your page could be linked to from e.g. l10n, which I dont think is a good idea.
but it might be an idea, for developers to have a page like you suggest. > > It's to get more attention to dev builds. And a little extra "promotion" > in the kind of a separate download webpage (that is seen by more people > than the Wiki page) would give more chances for feedback. > > However, this is just my opinion and I can live with it if there is no > majority. > > > In order to make sure they dont get distributed "as released", would it be >> an idea (and is it possible) to e.g. disable the actual "save" (not the >> button, but the final write call). With such a feature anybody can test >> (which is the purpose) but it cannot be used as a product. >> > > Dev builds are different products. So, it don't get installed as > OpenOffice but as OOo-Dev. This is valid also for the names or directories > and therefore user profiles. No interference with the production > installation. > Well I might have misunderstood it, but when I do a "build --all", I end up with packages that I can install (at least for ubuntu), and they do not seem so different from an official release package ? And as I understand it, snapshot build (which is also a kind of developer version) is made like an installation. It is very nice for developers to be able to get a version fast, but I agree with Rob, that such a version could get popular and distributed, especially with our current language situation. > Marcus > > > > > On 9 November 2012 22:05, Rob Weir<robw...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Marcus (OOo)<marcus.m...@wtnet.de> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> a quick question as I don't know the status of this request: >>>> >>>> Do we (still) want to have download links for Dev Builds that refer to >>>> >>> the >>> >>>> respective people's dir? >>>> >>>> >>> IMHO we don't want pages in www.openoffice.org/dowload/* to point to >>> anything other than actual releases. Links from Dev, L10n or QA >>> pages are fine. >>> >>> Then I would create a webpage that can be included in the usual download >>>> website - as it was in the former times with OOo. >>>> >>>> At the moment there is just a link to the Wiki page. >>>> >>>> Marcus >>>> >>>
