Hi Clytie, Thank you very much for your specific description about build name and version number, also for the excellent illustration about MWS and CWS processing.
I'm looking forward your coming to the IRC. :o) Best regards, Lihua 2008-07-10 发件人： Clytie Siddall 发送时间： 2008-07-09 21:45:52 收件人： [email protected] 抄送： 主题： Re: [qa-dev] About OOo Version On 09/07/2008, at 12:08 PM, Zhu Lihua wrote: > Hi Thorsten, > > Thanks for the explaination. > > So it seems OOH680_mX is a Code base name, and OOo2.4 is a Version > Name. Is that right? > But in the issuetrack, the version field contents both of the names. > So I think, actually, they are equally used in our work. Is that so? Yes. We (the OpenOffice.org Project) tend to use the build names, because they are more specific. You have many different development builds for a single release. However, OpenOffice.org users tend to identify the program by a version number. That's why you see both references in the Issue Tracker. Pavel's excellent slideshow also helps explain the release process. [1] The way I tried to explain the codelines to my team was: xxx680 ― main codeline DEVxxx ― development builds towards a particular release BExxxx ― beta builds These codelines run parallel, but they do different jobs. The main codeline always continues, but it branches off to test features and changes for each release. Beta builds are for wider testing. It's important to remind users that the DEV and BE builds are not stable versions: they are primarily for testing. However, that makes it difficult for us when a user reports an issue. If they do remember to tell us which version they're using, even if they say "OpenOffice.org 3.0b", we're left wondering, "Which build?" But at least we have some information. :) > > > BTW, I'll participate in the orgnization of the IRC meet. Please let > me know when you decide > to start a meeting, maybe I need some preparation on it. > > I have no much experience in IRC. But I think after 1 or 2 meetings, > we could do better. > > I've registered as "redflagzhulihua" in #qa.openoffice.org. I look forward to seeing you there. Unfortunately, I am going to be unavailable for a week or two, but I hope to be back after that. :) from Clytie Vietnamese Free Software Translation Team http://vnoss.net/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=projects:l10n [1] http://blog.janik.cz/files/OOoCon2006/img0.html
