On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Andrea Pescetti <[email protected]> wrote: > Rob Weir wrote: >> >> On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: >> >>> Specifically I get comments from friends that the "Check >>> for Updates" from the Help menu no longer functions due to URL update >>> changes. Are there similar areas that we need to document? >> >> Is this an issue with OOo 3.3? The earlier 3.4 beta? Or with the >> recent AOO 3.4 test builds? > > > The only place where this is an issue is OpenOffice.org 3.3. I don't know > about OpenOffice.org 3.4 beta, but update notifications do not make much > sense in (unfrequent) beta releases anyway. The recent Apache OpenOffice dev > builds do not support notifications: the menu item is not there. > > By the way, the problem users experience is not related to code changes but > to infrastructure changes: the update notifications server is unreachable > since it was not migrated together with the other *.services.openoffice.org > services. >
OK. So are 3.3.0 users getting error messages today because that service is down? Or is the problem only that pre-3.3.0 users are not getting update notifications telling them about the 3.3.0 release? > I usually answer users along the lines of "The update server is unavailable > due to migration; it's not important to restore it now since there would be > no update to announce anyway; it might be that things change when a stable > release is out" (I remember Martin Hollmichel or some other well-known guy > saying that in principle it would be possible to get that service running > again). > I'd argue that if 3.3.0 users are getting error messages today, then it might be a good idea to set up the update notification server now, even if it just tells 3.3.0 users that they have the latest official release. > To anybody not familiar with the concept: update notifications are not > product updates (don't think Firefox); the command just tells the user "No > updates available" or "A new version of OpenOffice.org is available, please > open www.openoffice.org and download it". So it seems feasible to replace > it. Is this the protocol that we are using: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Update_Notification_Protocol ? > > Regards, > Andrea.
