Rob Weir wrote:
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?
Both, but all users who are on 3.3.0 (the vast majority) get an error
message similar to "Could not establish Internet connection to
update36.services.openoffice.org" as TJ wrote. If you open a search
engine that autocompletes queries, writing "update3" will give you a
nice list of popular queries for this problem, referencing different
servers.
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
They are getting the error message, and indeed the sooner it is fixed
the better, even though the moment when this becomes quite embarrassing
is when Apache OpenOffice 3.4 is out and OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 users are
shown an error message on trying to know whether updates are available.
Is this the protocol that we are using:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Update_Notification_Protocol
?
Not sure. The wiki page seems to concern a proposed protocol upgrade, it
might be that the current one is simpler. The address is set here:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/ooo/trunk/main/instsetoo_native/util/openoffice.lst?view=markup
(search for UPDATEURL, set to update38.services.openoffice.org)
but I don't know where the code uses it. And I don't know whether the
neon library removal affects the client side of this service or not.
Regards,
Andrea.
