On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Andrea Pescetti <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 19/06/2011 Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > Would it be possible to release OOo 3.4 on the old (Oracle-owned) > > infrastructure, and maybe take advantage of this release to educate > > users and volunteers about the coming new infrastructure at Apache? > > ... I take for granted that the community would support this proposal > > (for one, the Italian community spent weeks to get the OOo 3.4 strings > > 100% translated into Italian, and our QA team is ready to start full > > testing any moment). Would developers and release managers support this > > too? > > All reactions on this old mail I sent have been positive, but we still > miss an answer from developers. In my opinion this is an occasion not to > miss for at least the following three reasons, comments welcome. > > 1) Releasing OpenOffice.org 3.4 must not be seen as the last activity on > the old infrastructure, but as the first activity of the new Apache > project. Dozens of tools are used to coordinate an OOo release, and > for us experienced OOo volunteers it will surely be better to explain > and revise tools and processes in front of a concrete example rather > than describing them in abstract to new members. > > 2) OpenOffice.org 3.4 is mostly ready. I built the latest code from hg > a couple weeks ago and I've regularly used it so far. The quality is > good and there is no risk of damaging the OOo reputation. All > release stoppers are bugs that will have to be fixed anyway, and > fixing them later will require the same amount of time. > > 3) The amazing people who joined this project cover all areas needed > for a successful release. This is the only group that can coordinate > a successful release (bugfixing, QA, distribution) of OpenOffice.org > 3.4, and use the experience to educate old and new community members > to the Apache way and, on the other side, to the OOo processes. > > We have a huge community that is ready now and that becomes very active > only when a release is in sight (and that would surely be committed to > extra effort, if needed, this time): it would be a risky move, both for > communication and for involvement of volunteers, to have them waiting > for a long time before we can ask them to help us release a new version. > > Any reasons not to try? > > Regards, > Andrea. > > Well Joost (QA Manager) is not on the list, although I saw Stefan Taxteh submiting for an apache ID which means he is around. I wonder who would be needed to speak on this. -- *Alexandro Colorado* *OpenOffice.org* Español http://es.openoffice.org
