Am 07/19/2013 02:20 PM, schrieb Rob Weir:
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.
IMHO it's worth it to keep the old content for reference. So, better to
add a section for OOo 3.3.0 instead of overwriting the stuff.
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.
+1
Marcus
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