Martin Hollmichel wrote:
Charles A. Landemaine wrote:
Thank you Martin. I visited the QA page. Will some one test our build
before uploading it to your download page? At PC-BSD we already have a
testing process prior to releasing PBIs on our software web site.
I think it's ok if your group also takes responsibility for doing QA,
getting more help from the OOo QA project may not be very likely because
PC-BSD is not commonly used there. For the initial QA approval it might
be useful to let the automated tests successful run.
Here's my OO.o ID: calande. What's the next step now for PC-BSD's
build to be listed in the download page next to Windows and OSX
builds?
where are the PBIs available now ? How much stuff is it ?
Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Thanks,
Hi Martin and Charles,
I currently do QA FR/EN testing with Maho's builds on my PC-BSD 1.2 box
using the TCM system. I haven't tested any of the PBIs, one of the
reasons being that native language stuff seems to take ages to be
prepared, and the other being that Maho doesn't have the time to fix the
all of the problems since he is essentially on his own (unless I'm very
much mistaken).
My concern with putting PBIs on the OOo download page is that people
will inevitably inundate Maho with bug issues that he's not in a
position to correct, and possibly with issues linked to the PBIs. If
that were to happen, I feel it would be necessary to indicate to users
that the OpenOffice.org web site is not the first place users should
turn to for help, since many of the severe problems (by severe, I mean
crashes) actually present in the FreeBSD build are specific to that build.
As a general remark, the Base module is very unstable and causes OOo to
crash frequently (and yes I have opened issues for these and Maho is
aware of them), undoubtedly because of the Java integration (and I have
compiled my own JDK 1.5), but fixing them takes time which Maho doesn't
have (he does after all do the builds for Mac PPC/Intel and FreeBSD).
I'm all for improved visibility of the PC-BSD project, but it shouldn't
mislead users into thinking that it can solve all their business needs,
since at the present time OOo FreeBSD isn't IMHO ready for prime time.
Just my 2 cents
Alex
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