The vote period to release the RC2 (based on release branch AOO40, revision 1503704) as Apache OpenOffice 4.0 has ended.
The ballot result in 24 votes, 24 +1 votes including 14 binding PMC member votes. 3 binding +1 votes are necessary for the release. That means the ballot closed successful to release the RC2 as AOO 4.0 Vote tally +1 Jan Iversen (binding) +1 Keith McKenna +1 Olaf Felka +1 Sylvain Denis +1 Marco A.G. Pinto +1 V Stuart Foote +1 Samer Mansour +1 Ricardo Berlasso (binding) +1 Rory O'Farrell +1 Rob Weir (binding) +1 Shengfeng Liu +1 Kay Schenk (binding) +1 Marcus Lange (binding) +1 Regina Henschel (binding) +1 Andrew Rist (binding) +1 Donald Harbison (binding) +1 Xuacu +1 Juergen Schmidt (binding) +1 Yuzhen Fan +1 Andrea Pescetti (binding) +1 Armin Le Grand (binding) +1 Herbert Duerr (binding) +1 Kazunari Hirano (binding) +1 Andre Fischer (binding) Thanks Juergen On 7/17/13 9:40 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > Hi all, > > this is a call for vote on releasing the following release candidate > (RC2 revision 1503704) as Apache OpenOffice 4.0. This will be an > important release for Apache OpenOffice with bigger visible UI changes. > It is a key milestone to continue the success of OpenOffice. > > This release candidate provides the following important changes compared > to former OpenOffice releases: > > (1) a major UI change/improvement by introducing a new sidebar concept > where the idea is the comes from IBM's Symphony. It's the combination of > reimplementing a complete new framework for sidebars and merging the > existing sidebar in impress and code of various content panels from the > Symphony grant in OpenOffice. > > (2) 190 fixes from Symphony are merged and integrated, mainly > interoperability issues > > (3) 600 defects are fixed > > (4) many more features and improvements are integrated > > For a detailed feature overview please see the release notes under > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes. > But keep in mind that the release notes are not yet final and will be > updated and polished ... > > The release candidate artifacts (source release, as well as binary > releases for 23 languages) and further information how to verify and > review Apache OpenOffice 4.0 can be found on the following wiki page: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds#DevelopmentSnapshotBuilds-AOOSnapshot > > The related and updated RAT scan for this RC can be found under > http://people.apache.org/~jsc/aoo-4.0.0_rat/aoo-4.0.0_rat-output.html > > The RC is based on the release branch AOO400, revision 1503704! > > Please vote on releasing this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0. > > The vote starts now and will be open until: > > UTC 3:00pm on Friday, 19 July: 2013-07-19 3:00 UTC. > > But we invite all people to vote (non binding) on this RC. We would like > to provide a release that is supported by the majority of our project > members. > > [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0 > [ ] 0 Don't care > [ ] -1 Do not release this package because... > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
