[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

Michael Scherer misc at zarb.org
Tue Oct 5 16:16:10 CEST 2010


Le mardi 05 octobre 2010 à 08:54 -0500, Dale Huckeby a écrit :
> On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Ahmad Samir wrote:
> 
> > Actually yes, it's one of the - rather rare - cases where upstream,
> > OOo, offers readily installable binary rpms :)
> > (although you have to bear in mind that the openoffice version in the
> > Mandriva repos was the http://go-oo.org/ version, which has a saner
> > build system and is easier to maintain).
> 
> Not wanting to be confrontational, just curious. Are "saner build
> system" and "easier to maintain" relevant to the user, which he should
> take into account in making his choice, or are they mainly relevant
> to developers/maintainers?

Given that developers/maintainers time directly impact ont he number of
bugs and features they can work on for users, I would say both.

Except that most users do not realize. 
-- 
Michael Scherer



More information about the Mageia-dev mailing list