Nino, Right on target; I could not have said it better. As for the release pace there is a theory that suggests that slowing it to a rearly rythmn would decrease the intetest of developers. But that is obviously a theory, and cannot be an exact science.
Best, Charles. On 6 août 2014 13:50:57 CEST, Nino Novak <[email protected]> wrote: >Am 06.08.2014 13:07, schrieb Tom Davies: > >> So again the question has apparently gone back to "What is the >advantage of >> the "Still" branch. Why would people choose it or what circumstances >would >> suit "Still" better than "Fresh"?" > >The main advantage is its age: it's more mature; it has been in use for >a >longer time; people know it better; more questions have been answered >in all >the support forums etc. > >You see, the main problem is not having two branches, it's having two >branches which do not differ too much - just half a year. Therefore, >both >are rather "fresh", there is no "really mature" version, at least not >in the >public. > >So the thing to really complain about is the lack of a really mature >(2-3-4 >years or more) version! Therefore, all the bug fixing etc does not >really >improve the stability of the software as branches end their lifetime >too >soon after receiving their last bugfix update. > >I'm not sure what the effects would be if there was a Long Time Support >version. Maybe, everybody would switch to this LTS verison and bug >reporting >would decrease dramatically. But maybe also, that peoples' >satisfachtion >would grow considerably and therefore also commitment and loyalty. Who >knows? > >In a first step I'd very much like the community to decrease the >release >frequeny to once a year instead of every 6 months. > >Nino > >-- >To unsubscribe 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 -- Envoyé de mon téléphone avec Kaiten Mail. Excusez la brièveté. -- To unsubscribe 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
