Hi, YES!! RC3 etc. should be removed from the About.
Indeed marketing wise this it is bad to keep RC3 while the product is flagged as 3.5. regards Luc 2012/2/15 Rimas Kudelis <r...@akl.lt>: > 2012.02.15 00:14, Pedro rašė: > >> Olav Dahlum wrote >>> >>> This should be fixed ASAP from a marketing point of view. It's all about >>> expectations, so renaming the tarball etc is just not good enough. >>> Leif did also receive a similar complaint earlier, so this should be >>> taken very seriously. This is not the first time I've addressed the >>> dangers of such practices. >>> >> Thanks you, Olav. I was starting to think I was the only mad person here. >> >> Apparently even Cor finds this normal. >> >> Cor, please show me ONE program that does this and I will agree with you. >> >> This is completely absurd for me... > > > I think the other vendors do it the other way around (well, at least Mozilla > does, AFAIR): their RC releases indicate themselves as final, so after > renaming, this simply becomes true, and no recompilation is necessary. > > One way to address this and still allow identifying which RC this is easily > would be to implement my suggestion from > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42239. This way, the about > dialog in RC3 would look somewhat like this: > > LibreOffice 3.5.0 > Build ID: libreoffice-3.5.0.3 > > In this case, the fourth number in Build ID line would represent the RC > number. > > Rimas > > _______________________________________________ > List Name: Libreoffice-qa mailing list > Mail address: Libreoffice-qa@lists.freedesktop.org > Change settings: > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-qa > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-qa/ -- Luc Castermans mailto:luc.casterm...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ List Name: Libreoffice-qa mailing list Mail address: Libreoffice-qa@lists.freedesktop.org Change settings: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-qa Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-qa/
