Hi Atri, On Fri, 2020-06-26 at 15:04 +0200, Atri Bhattacharya wrote:
I would strongly urge the LibreOffice packagers and you, as the release manager for TW, to reconsider shipping beta quality LO for an otherwise stable, workable TW system. There are numerous issues with the 7.0 beta2 version [1], [2], [3] (several more that I haven't yet had the time to make reports about) which taken together have quite severely set back my preparations for LO Impress based presentations I have been working on. I can live with RC-0 versions that became a regularity on TW, but shipping pre-RC quality software when there is at least one well-supported stable upstream release should be a hard no-no on TW (perhaps we need to enshrine this in some form of policy), no matter how usable and stable upstream believes their beta may be.
Tomas and I just had a quick discussion about this and agreed to move forward with RCs (this is not the first beta of LO we had in TW - but apparenly one of the betas causing more trouble). Of course we have no guarantee that if you were not finding the bugs, if they'd be fixed in the final release :)
If the developers want feedback and bug reports for beta quality releases, perhaps having the beta versions installable in parallel -- alongside the stable version -- would be an option.
Thanks for the continuing set of updates and keeping TW moving, and best wishes.
[1] https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1173404 [2] https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1173409 [3] https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1173410
Would you mind filing those (and future ones) directly in LO's bug tracker? This could shorten the communication by a bit. Hope to get LO in 'shape' soon enough again. Cheers, Dominique