On Oct 9, 2010, at 23:23 , Scott Furry wrote:
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This survey is to gauge the views of the LibreOffice community on the
install/update method of LibreOffice. Please voice your opinion so that these
considerations may be taken into account when the LibreOffice method of
install/update is studied by the developer team. Please *bottom-post* your
opinions.
How do you expect LibreOffice to be updated?
My point of view is from an admin for a mid sized company network that
has different os types (windows, linux, mac), all of them in different
versions (e.g win 2000 ... win 7) and different distros (gentoo ...
suse). We have to manage this with minimum effort, maximum user
availability and maximum possibility to decide, what we do.
I think, LibO checks for new updates in an adjustable time period.
It would be nice to avoid too much "update available" messages - where
company users are not allowed to perform the update (no admin rights) so
they call our staff. Too much common applications (Acrobat reader, Java,
etc.) makes this noise every day.
Instead of noising the user I suggest to have a configuration option
where the LibO systems sends me a mail informing me: Time to visit this
computer!
The king class setup / update proc specially for company environments is
a possibility to have a common script where I put standard settings.
This helps to minimize the roll out of this application.
Incremental update would be nice, but its not a must have - if the
package size didn't grow too much.
How do you Install/Update LibreOffice?
Windows and Linux users: Download the package to our internal software
download server and installing the updates via remote access after users
has finished work.
Installation is made during roll out of new workstations from the same
source.
Mac: Download from webpage.
What do you expect when Installing/Updating LibreOffice?
The new version remembers all my settings, recent files and extensions.
Notification during update if there is an extension or setting, which is
not compatible.
Other programs have separate updating programs (iTunes being an example), if it
was technically feasible, would having a separate install program for
LibreOffice (with updating features) be useful to you?
It's not a simple task to check all these update programs available from
the different application providers.
I think, external update programs will make it easier for the developers.
But please: No download plugins for IE / firefox like Adobe. This
increases our maintenance effort.
Would having a download and update site, as well as a Unix|Linux package
repository site, be of value to you?
Yes! And together with this: It would be nice to have access to previous
versions together with a small info, whats changed.
So long - Bernd
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