Hi :) There are certain names i keep noticing and saying thanks to but there are quite a few others that i never notice despite them putting in tons of hard work.
I usually try to delete most LibreOffice emails but quite a few slip through but just did a quick search of your name and found you have been extremely active since at least Jan 2012. So, well over a year without any thanks! So a BIG THANKS from me!! :))) I wonder if it might be good to make a wiki-page list of people we think are owed a thanks. I think i would want to include people that i don't personally get on with particularly well or even argue against a lot because we have all made LibreOffice what it is today and that result is superb. Other mailing lists, such as the devs and docs team have lists of their contributors, or their top contributors but we don't have anything like it yet. One reason i noticed this over-sight was the QA people wrote to me to ask how to get more people interested in their competition and i really didn't have a good answer. I don't think i have the type of influence they were looking for. Quite the opposite in fact. However, they made just a couple more posts to this list and that seems to have generated fantastic results. So, good work to all!! I hope you are having fun over there and maybe considered trying out a few other teams too. Even if not then still many thanks for your work on this list. Many thanks and regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Virgil Arrington <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Thursday, 27 June 2013, 1:45 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: any word about 4.0.4 portable coming out? > > >This question makes me wonder, just why there are so many LO versions and >frequent new releases. I can't keep up, and I find myself torn about >upgrading. I want the latest and greatest, but I've had problems with newer >versions resurrecting old bugs. > >I'm sure there's an overriding philosophy that has been adopted, but I >wonder if we might be better served with fewer new releases. > >Apache seems to have taken quite the opposite approach with no new releases >of AOO since its 3.4.1. Perhaps something somewhere between the two extremes >might be nice. > >Virgil > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster >Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 8:19 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: any word about 4.0.4 portable coming >out? > > >Well, I do not really agree with the "bad deal". > >They need to spend their time "converting" the Windows version to the >"portable" version. It takes some time. So they pick and choose which >version they will send their time on. LO 3.6.7 comes out soon, but they >will not make that version, since the 4.0.x line is out. When 4.1.x >line comes out, they will be moving to that and not work any more on the >previous line. > >Sure, there are other "portable" software groups, but I only have dealt >with the PortableApps group, since TDF deals with them. If another >group starts making a good version for LO, then maybe the Board might >want to look at them as well. For me, I just go with the current >version that TDF/LO are listing on the download pages. > >Why would you want to run a portable version of LO when you have one >installed? > >As for versions that are optimized for slower systems, well anyone who >can deal with the compile/make process from the source code to binaries, >can do some basic optimizing to a specific system. Sometimes it take a >lot more. Raspberry Pi developers have optimized LO to run better on >their system than the "standard" 32-bit Debian install. > >If you really think that TDF should look at the other portable app >groups, then you need to bring it up to one of the Board members - and >off the User list. These types of discussions work best on the Discuss >List or some other list instead of the User list. > > >On 06/26/2013 06:52 PM, Pedro wrote: >> Hi Tim, all >> >> In my opinion TDF got a bad deal with the PortableApps people... >> >> They only create the versions they feel like and they drop a branch the >> minute a new release is out from a newer branch. Even worse: they don't >> listen to requests (maybe they don't have the manpower but they aren't >> interested in voluntaries either...). >> >> The guys at WinPenPack create a new portable versions at the same pace as >> the regular LO. And they missed version 3.6.6 but listened to my request >> on >> their Forum. >> >> For someone working on QA it is essential to have the final version on >> each >> branch. WinPenPack has all of them. >> >> Another advantage is that you can run all versions simultaneously (if you >> wish). The PortableApps version can not be executed while the installed >> version is running (I can't remember if it even runs when another portable >> version is running). >> >> Finally the WinPenPack binaries seem to be somewhat optimized because they >> run faster on slow computers (like my netbook). >> >> Conclusion: I highly recommend X-LibreOffice ;) >> >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/winpenpack/files/X-LibreOffice/releases/ >> >> BTW X-LibreOffice version 4.0.4 is available since June 19th... >> >> Just my 2 cents ;) >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/any-word-about-4-0-4-portable-coming-out-tp4063162p4063198.html >> Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> > > >-- >To unsubscribe 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/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >deleted > > >-- >To unsubscribe 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/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > -- To unsubscribe 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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
