Hello, (I hope it's the right list to post this message)
On Thursday and Friday Sophie and I met with the Ubuntu OOo maintainers. The topic was how we could enhance our cooperation in the light of the lower quality of the Ubuntu OOo builds. We also had the opportunity to discuss this with the Novell/Go-OOo team and we believe we have come up with a global analysis and the beginning of the solution. Ubuntu does compile OOo from the vanilla source, using the ooo-build system and applying their patches in a non-systematic way. Which essentially means they get the worst of both worlds ;) ... We pointed the Ubuntu team to the various bug reports we (in the fr project for instance) had received and how it was unappropriate, unpractical and not understandable for our users to differentiate between builds and branches. In any case it appeared that the reported bugs were not easily identifiable as having their roots in the build system, the upstream or the patches. We have therefore proposed two things : - that we open a new category or subcategory on our own IZ to enable a direct communication of bugs and issues between Ubuntu and us (the upstream project) - that the Go-OO team moves to our own IZ and that both branches get a common reporting platform, a common visibility (and perhaps a common treatment). Your comments are welcome. Best, Charles-H. Schulz. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@qa.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@qa.openoffice.org
