Hi Andrea, When would be the best time for an update?
Regards, Matthias Am 22.01.21 um 00:39 schrieb Andrea Pescetti: > On 21/01/2021 Pedro Lino wrote: >>> Please let me know if it works; if it does, I will then revert it and >>> republish only after 4.1.9 is out ... >> It is fixed indeed (although I get 2 notifications for that >> extension, but one problem at a time!). Thanks! > > OK, thank you for checking. I've now reverted the fix and we'll go > live with a more complete version when people will have upgraded to > 4.1.9. > >> if an extension author submits a new version does s/he have >> permission to do that manual update or s/he has to request someone to >> do it? > > Extensions authors cannot trigger the update. Site moderators can (and > probably should) do it once in a while as a routine task. The worst > period is for sure when you are close to a release and the few weeks > after a release, since before the release you might be downloading a > newer version than the one coming with the release (like: if a bundled > extension was updated yesterday, 4.1.9 would contain an older > extension version than the one people would download today). > > But when we are not in proximity of a release, we can trigger the > update perhaps once a month; fact is, the process I could find is > still cumbersome and requires shell commands to be run, so until we > streamline it it won't be run very frequently. And I would be against > fully automating it as some anti-spam checks might be needed, even > though spam is a problem on the Templates site much more than the > Extensions site. > > Regards, > Andrea. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
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