Tackling the LibreOffice update problem Automated updates and update statistics
Channel: FOSDEM
Date: 10/03/2018

by Markus Mohrhard

At: FOSDEM 2017

The crash reporter showed that the LibreOffice project has a serious updateproblem with users using old versions and not updating to newer versions. Thetalk will present the work on the automatic updater as well as the approach tocollect some user statistics to improve the crash reporter.

Based on the Mozilla updater code an automatic updater has been underdevelopment for the LibreOffice project for quite some time. Based on theexperiences with the crash reporter the need for an automatic updater has beenshown to be a serious problem for the project. The talk will show the currentapproach used in the automatic updater code, open challenges and how thisallows to rethink the installation and packaging experience. Based on theprototype server the talk will also show how the server can be used togenerate am estimation for active daily users (ADU) and how the informationabout the number of ADU can be used to enhance other services.


Room: K.4.401
Scheduled start: 2017-02-04 15:30:00