Hi All 2011/6/17 Michael Meeks <michael.me...@novell.com>
> Hi Cor, > > On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 20:00 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: > > > Wrt. the upgrade paths we recommend - we can work that out later of > course > > > > Not so sure if that is a wise approach. > > Hey :-) so - first off, the plan is to only shipping the capability > of > notifying for an update without immediately lighting up the update > recommendation server. Also - since we are shipping it only in one > version 3.4.1 - there is nothing to update to anyway ( unless you count > 3.3.3 ;-). So the net effect will be (I think) nothing. We have a week+ > to shake out any bugs in it. > > > This feature often brought no joy. Wrong information, not available > > url's etc. I guess there is some work needed to make it work properly. > > Either in the code, or on the server side... > > Sure - so, as I understand it, the server is notified of the client > version, so we can build whatever matrix we like of recommended upgrades > (or none at all), based on the version they are using. That seems > flexible enough for what we want - and of course, we can decide that > matrix with some considerable thought later. > > > Indeed, above the already mentioned problem, we have the challenge > > to make sure that the right user does find the right version for > > her situation. > > Of course - and we also have the existing challenge that people are > not > updated, and are running old LibreOffice's with plenty of known bugs > fixed in them. ie. if we care about quality we want people to update > through release series .0 -> .1 -> .2 etc. Clearly sysadmins need to be > able to turn this off, as no doubt we'll do for the SUSE, RedHat, Ubuntu > etc. versions - but that is not a huge issue. > > So - is there still a problem ? > Yes I think, but it can be solved by a twist on some bits: LO 3.4.x is in a different path than LO3.3.x . Shall LO3.5.x be in a different path than LO3.4.x? In user space, this means as if a new product landed, with noise on icons associations, double entries of LO in Start Menu, bla bla bla. In enterprise space, a bunch of disgruntled sysadmins to wipe old version. This old update scheme may cause a bunch of headaches. (sysadmin dream: update LO as easy as update FireFox) Kind regards -- Olivier Hallot Founder and Steering Commitee Member The Document Foundation
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