Hi :) Then you (and loads of other people because a lot of us do the same thing) miss out on the chance to get your particular pet-hates dealt with while almost every dev is most interested in the new branch = and that means you can't use the shiny new toys until after they have become less exciting.
I do the same btw, lol Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: anne-ology <lagin...@gmail.com> >To: Tom <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> >Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org; Dan <elderdanle...@gmail.com> >Sent: Friday, 31 August 2012, 16:26 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Update to 3.6.1 > > Thanks for your response. > > This makes me so glad that I do not upgrade anything immediately - > I'd rather wait until all the kinks are removed. > > > >On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 4:46 AM, Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > >Hi :) >> Reason for so many problems in last couple of weeks is the new release of >> a new branch of LO. >> >> Each new branch should try to add as much functionality as it reasonably >> can to attract new people and to give the devs a chance to really show-off >> and get on with interesting things. Unfortunately the side-effect is that >> unexpected things and often completely unrelated things that 'shouldnt' be >> affected sometimes go wrong. Roughly the equivalent of going out to buy an >> ice-cream and getting back to find a magpie built a nest in your filing >> cabinet. >> >> As a branch matures the devs fix those problems (and longer-standing >> issues) and include their fixes in the "service packs". So 3.6.1 is likely >> to have less problems and then the 3.6.2 has even less and so on until it >> reaches around 3.6.4. >> >> But by then it has become less exciting to work on so a lot of the devs >> will have drifted over to new functionality that will be added in the next >> new branch. Not all devs want exciting new toys, many have a tendency to >> worry a specific problem to death but that can often become an unhealthy >> obsession too. A fresh pair of eyes can sometimes spot where a dev has >> managed to shake something loose and come up with a simpler answer. >> >> After months of detailed work on a specific issue a dev might then be into >> chasign shiny new toys for a while (or just leave the project and run >> screaming from the room). Hopefully people that chase shiny new toys >> sometimes get sucked into getting bogged down in a single issue again. For >> some people i would guess that's a repeating cycle. >> >> Of course many of the companies that support LO do invest employee >> dev-time into LO and they get a lot less choice about what they work on, so >> their burn-out rates are probably higher. >> >> Just my thoughts really. Any stereotype fails in the light of reality. >> Regards from >> Tom :) >> >> >> >> >> From: anne-ology <lagin...@gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Update to 3.6.1 >> To: "Dan" <elderdanle...@gmail.com> >> Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org, "Tom" <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> >> Date: Thursday, 30 August, 2012, 22:47 >> >> so I'm using both 32 & 64 on this machine ??? >> >> ok, I believe you; >> now just another question - >> could this be the reason for so many bugs? - >> [seems as if this list has been listing quite a few >> recently, some I've never even seen ???] >> >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Dan >> <elderdanle...@gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=elderdanle...@gmail.com>> >> wrote: >> >> I believe that Tom and I were talking about LibreOffice on Windows. I >> > have a 64 bit computer which had VISTA running until I replace that with >> > Ubuntu. But LO does not have a 64 bit LO version which I thought was the >> > train of thought. >> > >> > --Dan >> > >> > anne-ology wrote: >> > >> >> You've been mis-informed - WIN does have 64. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Dan >> >> <elderdanle...@gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=elderdanle...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >> >> >> As far as I know, only Windows does not have a 64 bit version. >> >> Linux has 64 bit version for both DEB and RPM. The following is the >> >> folder containing the installation files for LO 3.6.1.2 The Java I >> use >> >> is also 64 bit that I get from the Ubuntu Repository (OpenJDK Java >> 6) >> >> with all the patches. >> >> >> >> LibO_3.6.1.2_Linux_x86-64___**install-deb_en-US >> >> >> >> --Dan >> >> >> >> >> >> Tom Davies wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi :) >> >> LibreOffice doesn't have a 64bit version and allegedly needs >> java >> >> to be 32 bit too. >> >> Regards from >> >> Tom :) >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> From: Peter Hillier-Brook >> >><p...@hbsys.plus.com<http://mc/compose?to=p...@hbsys.plus.com> >> >> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Update to 3.6.1 >> >> To: >> >>users@global.libreoffice.org<http://mc/compose?to=users@global.libreoffice.org><mailto: >> users@global.** >> >> libreoffice.org >> >> <users@global.libreoffice.org<http://mc/compose?to=users@global.libreoffice.org> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Date: Wednesday, 29 August, 2012, 22:05 >> >> On 29/08/12 18:50, Tom Davies wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi :) Errr, on the 64bit Ubuntu is the java also 64bit? If >> >> it is >> >> then can you try installing a 32 bit version of 1.6_32? LO >> >> can be >> >> told which version of java to use so it might work Tools - >> >> Options - >> >> Java Regards from Tom :) >> >> >> >> >> >> That sounds like Windows solution! :-) >> >> >> >> Peter HB >> >> >> >> > >-- >For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org >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 > > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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
