Hi Tom, all
Tom wrote > 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. Because Ubuntu has Mark Shuttleworth's big pockets behind it. If you pay developers to back-port fixes it works. However if you rely on developers that work on whatever they find interesting then it is hard to convince them that back-porting is fun... Tom wrote > 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. AOO still has so many bugs that were already solved in LO and has so many new LO features missing that loading yesterday's AOO daily build felt like going back in time... Regards, Pedro -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/any-word-about-4-0-4-portable-coming-out-tp4063162p4063287.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
