Kirill S. Palagin schrieb:

> Hello everybody.
> 
> Version 2.3 is scheduled to be released on September 4th, 2007
> (http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOoRelease23).
> 
> In my opinion we may gain substantial number of users if we release
> earlier. 
> The idea behind this - people generally buy more computers in August and
> for their new computers they need an office suit.
> 
> If we manage to release by, say 25th of August we will capture users by
> giving them new shiny tempting version 2.3 (which is promising to be
> very good feature-wise) for their new computers.

I don't think that this makes sense (BTW: I think that most computers
are ordered around Christmas, so releasing a new feature release in
September isn't a bad timing).

> What do developers think of this?

I can speak for myself only. I think we should stick to our release
cycle. We extended it for a reason. This reason hasn't gone.

Besides that, OOo 2.2 isn't bad either. :-)

Ciao,
Mathias

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Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer
OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS
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