Hello Charles,
Am 15.05.2010 14:24, schrieb Charles-H. Schulz: > > 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. i hope you have some success. i try also to come in contact with the maintainers of the different distributions in Germany. > > 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 ;) ... I do the experience that the Ubuntu Maintainer also takes the patches from Debian. and in the result the OpenOffice.org from Go-OO, from Debian and from ubuntu are different. > 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). At this time I take the Ubuntu maintainer into CC if I found out, that something is an Ubuntu only problem. if we need a new (sub-) category then we need it for all different distribution. I think this isn't practicable. I think it is more important to communicate to get a better quality in the distribution version. I'm very interested to take part at such discussions. Kind regards Mechtilde -- Dipl. Ing. Mechtilde Stehmann ## http://de.openoffice.org ## Ansprechpartnerin für die deutschsprachige QA ## Freie Office-Suite für Linux, Mac, Windows, Solaris ## Meine Seite http://www.mechtilde.de ## PGP encryption welcome! Key-ID: 0x53B3892B
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