Hi :) I agree with both sides of this argument/discussion. I do really like the fast-paced development of LibreOffice. Especially as it follows decades of being stuck in a quagmire.
That is why i suggest the approach of letting fast paced development continue as it is and having a series of separate releases, perhaps once every 2 years or so, with only security-patches and bug-patches being back-ported. However the idea has been dismissed by the BoD as being unfeasible. I am not quite sure how Ubuntu manages to do it if it can't be done. Of course there is another way to view this. If you see AOO as being the LTS version of LibreOffice then we have it covered already. Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Pedro <pedl...@gmail.com> >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Thursday, 27 June 2013, 10:03 >Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: any word about 4.0.4 portable coming out? > > >Hi Virgil, all > > >Virgil Arrington wrote >> Apache seems to have taken quite the opposite approach with no new >> releases >> of AOO since its 3.4.1. Perhaps something somewhere between the two >> extremes >> might be nice. > >I used to have the same opinion as you. But the incredible progress of >LibreOffice in a single year convinced me otherwise. > >LO is following a time based release method. This means that it is moving >forward fast and some bugs do slide in... > >However the improvement in quality, stability and features make it almost on >par with *current* commercial alternatives. A year ago LO was comparable to >MS Office 2003. Today it compares with Office 2010 and in some areas it is >even better (though not in speed/performance) > >Fear of updating is where Portable versions are also excellent. You can get >X-LibreOffice 4.0.4 today and test it against your stable version. If there >are regressions you can skip this version (and ideally report the bug at >Bugzilla ;) ) and wait for the next one that solves it. If there are no >regressions then you can install the new version. > >If you have the freedom to test any version without compromising your stable >install, isn't that great? > >Pedro > > > >-- >View this message in context: >http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/any-word-about-4-0-4-portable-coming-out-tp4063162p4063237.html >Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >-- >To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 > > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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
