What is the policy on feed update frequency?

After my office PC was re-installed (because it was unbearbaly slow
before), I tried to use Zero Install for many free tools I regularly use. I
selected LibreOffice, but did not try to use it until now. Unfortunately,
it seems LibreOffice was not only updated, but also deleted all old
versions, such that it seems no version in the LibreOffice feed is still
available for download.

I assume I could work around this by copying the feed and editing it, but
if I end up having to do this often, then I have to ask myself if it is not
less trouble to install the applications 'normally' once, and be done with
it.

Another particular problem I see in my case, is with the selected Java
versions. Due to compatibility issues, I still have to use Java 7 at work,
and so can neither use the Oracle JRE feed, nor the Ant or Maven or Eclipse
feeds, but even if I could use Java 8, I might still be required to use a
specific, or at least 'recent', version of Java, to conform to the version
we tell our clients to use.

Furthermore, I was wondering why there is a feed for the command-line
version of 7-zip, but not for the GUI version. I was in fact surprised that
anyone would have a need for the command-line version; 7-Zip is intalled by
default on every employee PC here, but nobody uses it from the command-line.

What I want to know is, who decides which feed to offer and when to update
which feed, and what are the policies guiding those decisions, and also
what are the expected/typical use-cases for using Zero Install? I feel like
I fall outside of the scope, although I think that my issues would be
shared by many devellopers as well.

Regards,
Sebastien Diot

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