Cor On Sun, 2011-10-09 at 12:05 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote:
> Hi Tom, > > Tom Davies wrote (08-10-11 12:10) > > > At this point we could probably start thinking about longer-term > > support than just 1 year. A lot has changed this year and the future > > seems much more solidly certain for TDF and LO. Regards from Tom :) > > No one will hold you from thinking about that. But before building > expectations, it is good to realise that decisions about release cycles > are made by the people that do the development work. > > Regards, > > > -- > - Cor > - http://nl.libreoffice.org I think we are growing to point were the issue of long term support probably needs to be addressed. I think this more an issue with corporate users rather than home/home office users. Large organizations dislike having to update very frequently and we need to find the best balance for them and us. Linux users are probably affected less because of the distros will provide one of the more recent versions. But Windows and Mac users need to update manually or in a corporate environment the IT department will need to roll out the new version/update. Firefox has received criticism for their rapid versioning from 4 to 7 in the last several months from corporate users. There are several possibilities. We could say every odd or even (3.3 vs 3.4) is the LTS with support for 2 or 3 years and the other is supported for 1 year for example. We could say every, say third release (3.3 the 3.6) is the LTS with support for the other version. One of the years releases (3.3, 3.4, and 3.5?) could be designated the LTS. Please note these are just ideas put out to stimulate thinking and discussion for us to determine what is best overall for LO and our users. Obviously, this is not an issue that can be decided without discussing with others such as the devs before a decision is reached but one that probably needs to addressing in the near future. The goal is to have a policy that can be used for planning by us and by users and is reasonable for both. -- Jay Lozier [email protected] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
