Mr Murphy, I suppose
Yesterday, I fired LibreOffice 4.4 press release. I was not aware, of course, that Mr Murphy was sitting next to me and eagerly awaiting the event to show up. So, when I pushed the button the website crashed, and was down for hours before our infra team was able of restoring it to working conditions.
Of course, the fact that we have stumbled on Murphy’s Law after 54 months is just amazing, as these hiccups usually happen more frequently. In fact, since September 28, 2010, we have had nine major announcements and dozens of minor announcements where everything worked without a single glitch. And we are talking of a volunteer based activity.
Hopefully, this problem will fulfil the expectations of all these people who have been looking at the LibreOffice project with a sense of envy…
I have followed some German computer-related discussion forums on the LibreOffice 4.4 release: People argued that the fact that the LO website was down is the reason of the great demand. They wrote something similar like: Apparently, so many people find LibreOffice great, so I must also have a look at it….
Also the downtime has something good 🙂