On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 01:56:54PM +0000, Shaun McDonald wrote: > On 14 Mar 2007, at 13:34, :murb: [maarten brouwers] wrote: > > >>download.openoffice.org already contains links to snapshots/ > >>releases so I would not invent another place for that. > >So what you simply want is make the link to http:// > >download.openoffice.org/680/index.html more prominent at http:// > >download.openoffice.org/ ? Possibly something more like a banner > >stating "OpenOffice.org 2.2 is near completion. Help us testing it. > >Download RC3." ? > > This is a very good idea.
+1 > I'll take an example. > Camino a Mozilla based project <http://www.caminobrowser.org/> has a > bar across the top of the page when their browser enters the beta > phase. This allows them to capture a larger audience. OpenOffice.org > rc builds should get wider testing. This is one way to achieve the > extra testing. But keep in mind that it usually doesn't matter that much if your browser crashes while working with it, however an Office Suite crashing can cause important data-loss when used in production environment. So while this should be OK for RCs, that wouldn't be true for the other milestones. (even with rcs you are at risk, esp. since OOo uses this as first stage for a release, with no dedicated beta or alpha before) So making it too prominent can backfire... OTOH, the devel-versions install into a seperate dir, so that allows to have it alongside your stable version, but currently it is not easy/obvious how to install a rc along your stable version, the default is to replace the stable one. (and that led to lengthy discussions on the german mailing lists already) > "All versions since 98" > [...] > "Windows 98 and above" maybe "newer" instead of "above"? ciao Christian -- NP: Silverchair - Black Tangled Heart --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
