https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57061
--- Comment #48 from Michael Meeks <[email protected]> --- Hi Paul, I'm sorry you got bitten by this issue; however - we have a time based release schedule, and this was not a sufficiently critical issue to hold the release (nor was there a fix in sight for it as/when we went live). > It is these kinds of bugs that lead many IT managers in the US to steer > away from FOSS and that freak out typical users who are using a TDF repeatedly, and emphatically states that "IT managers" should be paying for a professionally supported product version. These versions tend not to be based from a .0 release, better they come with real L3 support that can fix bugs and issues, and without which any migration is likely to fail. So - if your claim is that vanilla LibreOffice at a point-zero release is not adequate for an IT manager - you are quite correct. We can of course improve the wording of our announcements always; in the Free Software world, it's well understood that a point-zero release is always less polished than a point-<N> one :-) we can articulate that better of course. However - driving too many people away may defeat the point: without testers the software will not improve. On that topic, it would be great to have more people running master builds and reporting problems against them to help find problems (such as this) much earlier. Anyhow - thanks for your input ! noted. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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