On 25 November 2013 08:56, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/23/13 5:18 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > Andrew Rist wrote: > >> On 11/22/2013 1:52 AM, jan i wrote: > >>> Not having the binaries on apache.org is for sure the simplest > solution, > >>> and if we can decide that, then I am sure infra wont have a problem. > > > > Actually, it was Infra who pushed for having the Apache mirrors as a > > secondary mirror network, after we followed their advice not to offer > > binaries from the Apache mirrors as a primary channel due to > > size/bandwidth constraints. I like the idea to have a secondary mirror > > network at Apache, while I find it too much if this delays our releases > > or requires us to change our processes. > > > >> what if we have single install with all langs at apache.org? that way > >> it is there, but considerably smaller from a real estate perspective but > >> allows us to preserve binaries. > >> For user downloads @ sourceforge, we continue to have the 1 per lang > >> downloads that focus on the user. > > > > This sounds odd at first, but it could actually be a good solution. The > > multi-language build can be added to the SourceForge ones with minimal > > overhead, and it can be uploaded to the Apache mirrors very quickly. We > > would still have the possibility (this is an important one) to measure > > interest for the individual language builds by analyzing the SourceForge > > download data, while we would have the multi-language build available on > > both SF and Apache for archival and for those users who find this easier > > than download language packs. > > To repeat myself such a mulit-language install set make only sense from > my pov if the underlying code is able to select the UI language > automatically and chose the correct one for the office UI. Minimal > requirement would be an enhanced first start wizard that allow easy > selection of the preferred language. > > Keep in mind we are producing an end user application and this kind of > configuration should be done automatically for the user because many of > our users would be confused. > which is why we still have full language sets on SF, where our downloads happen. but I do think you put our users lower than they are, there are also many users who install a en-US package and then additional languages, simply because we live in an international world. rgds jan I. > > Juergen > > > > > Regards, > > Andrea. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > >
