Hi,
On 20 Mar 2007, at 00:00, :murb: (maarten brouwers) wrote:
Hi,
http://website.openoffice.org/tryouts/murb/other/helptesting.gif
Hmm - why not an equally sized/shaped download button for the RCs/
devel
versions as we have for the stable one?
Because I don't want the RC-download to interfere with the regular
downloads. Downloading the stable version should be a no-brainer for
everybody. Therefore a completely different format.
It is always very easy to forget about the ordinary user. Think about
your granny, or mother (depending on the generation that you come
from) and see whether they can manage to download and install ooo. To
head to the other extreme, you should be able to take a young child,
(around the age of 7-10) and they should be to install a bit of
software like ooo.
Back btw on the issue raised by Stefan, I am not sure whether it is
wise
to make the banner too general. It think it is better to use it only
every now and then (for a month or so), or else the impact might
reduce to
0, not sure though...
A banner for RC builds should only be available while an RC is in the
process of being tested. In theory RC builds should be more stable/
less likely to have issues, than Milestone builds.
We could communicate however to those who are willing to download
the RC
that there are test builds available all the time, and that there
continuous feedback is always appreciated. Maybe this would need for a
different 'contribute' text for RC-downloaders.
Milestone builds are the regular builds with the latest bug fixes.
These too should be advertised, especially for QA and those
submitting bugs. Many other projects ask you to check the latest
build to see if that still has the bug before submitting the bug. To
reduce the likelihood of stoppers showing up in the RC builds, we
need more people using and reporting issues with these builds.
Shaun
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