Well thank you Tom. I know beacoup info about release cycles, open vs. proprietary, and user configs. I seek to help grandmas.
> Updates item [is] pointless When Libre app reports no update to grandma, but I counter-invite to Libre org's home page news, grandma gets confused. Why does the app say different than the web site? Microsoft Office update doesn't behave so, nor Windows Update. The patches listed on Microsoft's web are the patces one gets in Windows Update. They are in sync. > Updates tend to be minor patches > LibreOffice doesn't have minor updates very often Frequent updates and bug fixes are a mark of quality. Advising people not to patch bugs is rather poor advice. Grandma needs a simpler way than full reinstall. Minor bugs kill grandmas. I want minor patches. I want the menu to tell grandma about them. Release cycles seem aggressive enough. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice#Release_schedule > OpenSource [keeps user] stuff safely away User prefs aren't relevant. The trouble is getting bugs fixed. A menu tells grandma no update exists, yet I claim to know better, but my info just means more work, a re-install. What seems easy to you and me is very intimidating to grandma esp. when she didn't do the original install. Some people did not grow up with computers either for age or poverty or both. So she ignores me, or says "manyana," all merely because there's no one-two click update. The result is users not keeping LibreOffice bug-patched. Next they complain if Calc breaks over something that Excel does perfectly well, only because they lack a "minor" fix. After that, they tell others that LibreOffice "broke on me doing X, so I went back to Excel" etc. Thanks very much to the team for all the hard work! Pushing fixes out to users is a no-brainer, I hope... -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an unladen european swallow -- 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
