Hi :) I think the more complicated it is to guess at which release are "enterprise ready" and which are "for early adopters" then the more likely the corporate boys are to avoid LO entirely.
The way Ubuntu does it by having a regular LTS release every 2 years with 6 monthly releases inbetween makes it very clear. I'm not sure it would work with LO since releases necessarily happen vastly faster than that. Couldn't the advanced features that have proven to be stable in the 3.4.x line be added to the 3.3.x line? Then it would be easy for non-devs to understand. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Caolán McNamara <[email protected]> To: Cor Nouws <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected]; libreoffice-dev <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, 26 July, 2011 10:58:06 Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [Libreoffice] Preparing announcement of the 3.4.2 release On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 11:23 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: > As explained in my initial mail, the term came up in the discussion > around the 3.4.0 release. Since we say that a point-zero release > definitely is not to be used in enterprise environments, that also hold > the expectation that we can advise a later version as such. If the criteria is a rule of thumb of avoid automatically switching over to X.Y.Z where Z == 0, then that's fair enough, seeing as that's a sort of global rule of thumb for software :-) > If you see it as exact science: yes. But I do not see labelling a > version as 'enterprise ready' as that. Hmm, exact science sounds so much better to me than arbitrary gut-feeling. C. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
