> Hi All, > I would to help with the QA testing. > Thanks, > Oren.
You are more than welcome. Please see previous postings to this list, today earlier, from Gal and from me, regarding the downloading: Gal Shalif - Sun Israel - Software Engineer wrote: > Add a new link - "snapshot version of 644 - for the brave only": > http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/644/ And I wrote: > Our build of cws_srx644_ooo20030223 for Windows is available under: > > ftp://netmask.it/pub/OpenOffice > > Get your choice of archive (ZIP of RAR), extract its content to a new > directory, and run "setup" from the directory. > > When you are being asked many personal questions ("registration"), you > may skip the questions and leave the answers empty (this is a standard > procedure during OpenOffice installation, don't worry). I suggest you (and other beta testers) forward all your bug reports to Shoshannah Forbes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), and she will add them to the IssueZilla (even under your name, if you prefer). It will help to avoid double reports (and Shoshannah has achieved a lot of experience in reporting to OpenOffice's IssueZilla). In addition, if you are curious to know which parts of the beta require more testing or are more urgent, please ask her. Differences between Gal's download links and mine: Advantages of Gal's links: ========================== 1. Gal's links are to the official 644_m1 from Sun. 2. Gal's links are already available to all the platforms (i.e. not only Windows). Advantages of my links: ======================= 1. More updated. 2. Some of your bug reports can be fixed by us (because we built the binaries here, and if the bug is critical and easy to fix, we can just fix the source and re-compile, without waiting for the Germans to reach that bug report). 3. Soon, this build will contain Hebrew specific stuff, such as improved import/export filters and TkOS translations. One more note for all the testers: There are many (maybe even millions) users and testers of OpenOffice in the world. Our purpose is not to find bugs of OpenOffice, but to find bugs of its Hebrew support. These bugs are divided to 2 categories: 1. The behavior and functionality of the Hebrew and/or BiDi. 2. Other functionalities of OpenOffice that are hurt by using BiDi and/or Hebrew. No need to explain (1). Regarding (2): Let's take crashes as an example: If you succeed to crash OpenOffice, and it is re-produceable, then it might look irrelevant for Hebrew. BUT if the steps to crash it involve Hebrew/BiDi actions, and without them it will not crash, it IS a bug of the Hebrew support. So report it. Fortunbately, there is not a "Hebrew Build", but the same build fits all, so you don't need to try to re-produce the bug under another version of OpenOffice before reporting it (if there was an English version and a Hebrew version, you would have to reproduce the bug under the English version, and only after failing to do it, report the bug). All you need to check (with bugs from category #2) is that the bug occures only when Hebrew/BiDi features are used, and doesn't occure when they are not used. Enjoy! ;-) -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, Founder Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __________________________________________________________ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 Mobile: +972-50-23-7338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel
