+1 On Jul 19, 2013, at 5:20 AM, Rob Weir wrote:
> We currently have this link from the download page,from 2009, > announcing end-of-life for OpenOffice.org 2.x: > > http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/eol.html > > I'd like to update that page to also state that 3.x version prior to > 3.4.x are also end-of-life. Why? We're unlikely to issue any more > security patches for 3.3.0 or earlier. > > So the concrete proposal is: > > 1) Update the eol.html page to state that OOo 3.3.0 and earlier are no > longer supported. > > 2) Create a new landing page for users of OOo 3.3.0 and before who are > using a language version that we do not yet have a translation. > Explain in this page that the earlier versions are no longer > supported. List what translations are currently available and where > they can be downloaded from. Give information on how they can > volunteer to help translate AOO into their native language. > > 3) Configure the update notification server to OOo 3.3.0 users to this > new landing page, if their language is not already translated. (Where > there is a translation we already point them to the download page) > > 4) Blog post/announcement on end-of-life for OOo 3.3.0 and earlier. > > The end result is that: 1) We made it clear what versions are > supported. 2) We did our due diligence to reach out to users of older > versions. 3) We encourage new translation volunteers. > > No rush on this. It does not need to be done at the same time as the > 4.0 announcement. It can follow a week or so later. > > -Rob > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
