> -----Original Message----- > From: Marcus [mailto:marcus.m...@wtnet.de] > Sent: Sunday, August 7, 2016 10:16 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Planning for emergency releases > > Am 08/07/2016 06:14 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: > > > > On 8/7/2016 8:29 AM, Marcus wrote: > > ... > >> I don't want to have it perfect. And we are already in this emergency > >> situation. We have either a patch process nor a full-release process. > > > > We don't have what I consider to be the full emergency, a live exploit > > in the field. > > OK, ACK. > > > Why not both strategies? Go ahead with the inferior, clumsy, > > user-hostile patch process because that is the best we can do this > week, > > I would do it (or help) when I had some knowledge in Windows batch > programming. Unfortunately ... [orcmid]
That part, I can do [;<). > > > but meanwhile work on getting competent at preparing a full release > > promptly if needed. > > Maybe we are not that far aways from each other. What I want to to avoid > is to provide hundreads of MBs for a single fix. Of course we can do a > 4.1.3 with some collected fixes. As I don't know what is coming in the > future I would not love to see another 4.1.4, 4.1.5, 4.1.6, etc. when > the calendar is still showing 2016. ;-) [orcmid] So far, we have the good fortune of a fix having its effect only in a single shared library, with no problems of substitution into the already-shipped stable binary. Other problems may not be so easy. And with these fixes like 4.1.2-patch1, the level of end-user expertise required is a problem. Perhaps we will learn to do this kind of fix quickly and with less experimentation in the future. We are learning a great deal here. > > Marcus > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
