I also think that strictly following the naming policies does lead to confusion, when these two projects are put side-by-side (i.e. OOo and Neo).
I think, in practise, Neo/J has always been at least as stable as OOo releases for OSX. At least Neo/J Beta versions, Alpha versions maybe not, but even those are very good.
On the other hand, with OOo Beta versions, I got the feeling that they really are still under construction. But final OOo releases have been good.
...
So, I would recommend tuning down, or perhaps completely removing all the discussion about stability, bugs etc, at least when those things are compared to the other. It is not really accurate enough.
Also, because OOo OSX does not follow the same schedule as official platforms, using terms like "gold master" are somewhat fuzzy: a OOo build with CVS "release 2.0" tag, might be QA'd for OSX half year later and include various additional fixes. The software development terms like PMA, RTM, "gold master" are anyways not very useful to regular people... just use simple english, please :)
----> It would be better, to just say "this is OOo, version 2.0.x for OSX" and additionally "has not yet gone through official QA testing, but should work ok" or "has passed the QA".... something like that :)
As for NeoJ, I think it is enough to link to their page and let them explain what is the current quality state of the program.
my 2c,
Mox
On 12/8/05,
Chad Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 12/8/05, Jim Watson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Quoting Chad Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > *The advanced build is still being qualified but should work well. Use with
> > caution and report bugs to the dev at
> > porting.openoffice.org<[email protected]>list
>
> not misleading - as it says use with caution and report bugs
It *is* misleading to say that, and then claim it to be "gold master"
- it can't be both full of known bugs and a final gold release status.
Either its in testing, or its released - it can't be both.
> And now, the 2.0 X11 build is "still being
> > qualified" and cannot be, therefore, called a "gold-master release".
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