https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48644
Vaughn Reid III <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|WORKSFORME | --- Comment #4 from Vaughn Reid III <[email protected]> 2012-06-27 04:17:45 PDT --- If removing download links to 3.4.x is the desired behavior, then I see a policy mis-match. It is my understanding from reading release policy notes that there should be 2 release versions available for easy download. See: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/release-policy/ I also remember reading in a couple locations on the web site -- although I couldn't find those locations this morning -- that the idea behind having 2 current releases was to provide a more conservative and stable release for slower moving business usage environments and to have a less stable bleeding edge version for enthusiasts, early adopters, etc. This multi-tiered release cycle is mentioned here: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Release_Criteria. Since the stated release policy and state release criteria mention providing multiple versions available for download, it seems reasonable that the two primary release versions should be available for download from the "Download" page. A person who wants to use the older release -- which, by policy, should be the more stable release -- should not have to go digging around the web site to look for it. In addition, since both 3.4 and 3.5 are mentioned prominently on the web site with both a 3.4 Features page and a 3.5 Features page, it seems that common sense would dictate that both versions would be easily download-able from links on the download page. Once a stable 3.6.x release is available will easy to get to links to 3.5.x go away? If the answer is yes, then the release policy and release criteria should be changed to reflect that reality and the layout of the web site should change to remove references to the previous version. If, however, Libre Office wants to follow its own release policy and release criteria, it should make it easy to download both currently supported versions from the download page. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Libreoffice-bugs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-bugs
