On 2012-03-05 3:30 PM Rob Weir wrote:
I'll put it to you quickly simple. If you have been paying attention
you will realize that we're discussing release blocking issues.
I have been paying attention. Have you?
In the thread "Calling all volunteers: It is time to test" you wrote
"We could use help verifying the install in all real-world scenarios, on
clean OS installs,
as upgrades to previous versions of OOo." and
"Please send a short note to the [email protected] telling us
what platform and
scenario you installed (fresh install, upgrade, install next to LibreOffice,
etc.)."
I did an install over OOo on my Mac and reported that it deleted the extensions
in my user profile.
Dennis started this thread "[EXTENSIONS][RELEASE] (was RE: Calling all volunteers: It is time
to test)" to discuss if releases of AOO should overwrite the OOo version, thus deleting all
installed extensions.
Does this not require discussion?
Those
are the only changes we're making right now. Release blocking issues
are issues in BZ that have the 3.4 release blocking issue flag set.
You are welcome to add such an issue if you think one is lacking. You
can suggest things until you turn blue in the face and it will not
accomplish as much as the simple act of entering an issue once in BZ.
Is this not an issue for discussion? Having AOO overwrite, or not overwrite, OOo is a policy
decision that needs discussion. Or, as the grand poobah, are you saying it doesn't? Where has
this decision been made?
But I remind you that the fact that extensions will need to be
reinstalled in 3.4 is something that has been well-known in this
project for nearly 6 months now. But no one has cared to do anything
about it. And no one has raised it as release blocking issue, not
even as of today.
And now the decision has to be made about how to deal with the problem. Overwriting OOo and
eliminating the extensions will create a huge howl from tons of users and create unnecessary
extra work for the people providing user support.
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Larry I. Gusaas
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada
Website: http://larry-gusaas.com
"An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs." -
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