Hi :) On my own machine at home and at work I think it is a good policy to download and install new versions of new branches asap. Preferably even at beta-release stage (ie pre-release). That allows me to test out all the features i think i use and play around to see if it feels alright.
Then i can post bug-reports while the devs are still most keen and most focussed on fixing things and smoothing it out. It's not always quick to fix but it helps the devs. It might be really great if people could test out a new branch at pre-release stage and then go through some of the existing bug-reports to quickly see if they are still a problem with the newer release. That might really help the devs. Of course on colleagues machines i stick with the stable branch. Any release after x.x.3 is much more stable, with x.x.6 being about as rock-solid as it's possible to get. The question is are you happy to just sit&hope that someone else happens to notice issues that you personally find crucial? I'd rather have an active say in pushing forwards things that i want to see fixed. After having a test drive i can always reinstall the older version if i need to/ "Simples" :) Errr, in the case of the 4.0.0 i got really lucky and found everything i cared about just seems to work! WooHooo :D Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: M Henri Day <[email protected]> >To: Virgil Arrington <[email protected]> >Cc: [email protected] >Sent: Monday, 22 April 2013, 19:13 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] How to downgrade from 4.0.2. to 3.6.6 > > >2013/4/22 Virgil Arrington <[email protected]> > >> Bill, >> >> I hate to say it, but that was my experience as well with 4.0. There was >> an important feature (to me at least) that worked well on 3.6 but no longer >> worked in 4.0. I found the regression to be especially distressing. >> >> I simply uninstalled 4.0, and reinstalled 3.6. If I recall, the uninstall >> process (I also use Win7) did not delete the 4.0 user profile "users\(your >> user name)\AppData\Roaming\**Libreoffice\4.0\etc, so I was able to copy >> what I needed to the Libreoffice\3.0\etc. user profile after installing 3.6. >> >> I've decided to be more deliberate about upgrading in the future. Study >> the release notes and check out bug reports. LO 3.6 works very well for me, >> so I probably won't upgrade until the latest/greatest has a feature I >> really need or fixes bugs that have bothered me in the past. >> >> Virgil >> > ><...> > >Bill and Virgil, it might be helpful to the developers if you could point >out the specific bugs/missing features, etc, that have been causing you >problems in 4.0.... > >Henri > >-- >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 > > > -- 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
