Just to add another point... (see inline)
On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 20:04:56 +0200 Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 19:01:19 +0200 > Florian Reisinger <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Tom, > > > > If we do not find the bugs in the fresh version, they won't be > > resolved until the rename to Stable/Still. If less use Fresh, the > > quality of the next stable will be lower.... Does this help? > > That is true, but it still seems dangerous to push new users towards > Fresh. If users start with Stable, then, after learning that it is > stable, are pushed towards Fresh to get newer features, then the ones > who want stability won't move across and will be happy, and the ones > who want new features will move, knowing there is stability to fall > back on, and so will also be happy. Should they find that everything > works, they will be happy with new features, and should they find > instability, they will be happy to fall back on the stable version, > knowing that they had taken a *slight* risk. > > Conversely, if you push all new people to Fresh, any who find no bugs > will be happy, but any that find bugs will have the impression that LO > is buggy and unstable, and won't necessarily know about Stable to fall > back on. Those that are told about Stable will undoubtedly grumble > about the fact that they should have been told about it in the first > place. > > I'm not saying that this is a simple matter, just that in my opinion > it is far better to offer the Stable branch as the default install, > and urge users to try out the Fresh branch when they start asking > about features. Once they've gotten as far as asking about features, > they're already far enough in the process to get help should there be > any unexpected problems with Fresh. They're also far enough along in the process to offer bug reports... > Also, giving proper explanations > (well, proper brief explanations with a link to a more detailed > explanation) on the download page lets new users evaluate the choice > themselves, and that way they are less likely to be angry when caught > out by something. > > There should still be enough users of Fresh in this scenario to allow > for the needed user testing. > > > Paul > > > > > > Liebe Grüße, / Yours, > > Florian Reisinger > > > > > Am 06.08.2014 um 11:17 schrieb Tom Davies <[email protected]>: > > > > > > Hi :) > > > This seems to be contradicting what Charles is saying. > > > > > > Also is it really a good policy to force new and unwitting users > > > to act as guinea-pigs? Should all new users be pushed into > > > finding and fixing bugs? Would it really be bad to give them a > > > clear and easy route to a less buggy version? Regards from > > > Tom :) > > > > > > > -- 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
