On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > a further note for our PPMC members. I have started the vote for 3.4.1 > with this email and the vote should happen on the public ooo-dev mailing > list. Any QA efforts can and should continue during the voting process. > We should also focus on the improvement of the release notes to provide > as much as possible useful information why people should update etc. > > I am not sure how we can include the fix of security issues in the > release notes or when the best time is to include this information. The > wiki page becomes converted into a static html page with the release. >
We'll communicate the details of security fixes via the CVE reporting mechanism, after a release is made. Announcements would be made to project's lists including ooo-dev, ooo-users and ooo-announce, as well as to special industry mailing lists for tracking security fixes. But these occur only after a release is made public. I think it is fine to mention generically "security fixes" in the release notes, along with other generic areas (performance improvements, bug fixes, etc.). But no more detail than that. -Rob > Juergen > > On 7/30/12 5:26 PM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> this is a call for vote on releasing the following candidate as Apache >> OpenOffice 3.4.1 (incubating). This will be our first bug fix release >> after the AOO 3.4 from May 8th. A further milestone to show that we >> deliver good and stable software with focus on quality. It will again >> help to continue the success of OpenOffice.org and will gain confidence >> in OpenOffice. >> >> This time I did not prepare a separate page to highlighting the release >> candidate. We had developer snapshot since several weeks and the latest >> one based on revision 1366353 is intended to become released if the >> voting succeeds. That means and to make it clear you vote here on the >> final release based on this snapshot build. >> >> >> This release is intended to be a bug fix release and to introduce some >> further languages: >> (1) 64 issues are fixed and a detailed list can be watched under >> http://s.apache.org/Huv. >> (2) 5 further languages are now officially supported: British English, >> Khmer, Slovenian, Slovak, and Finnish. >> >> For a detailed feature overview please see the release notes under >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+3.4.1+Release+Notes. >> >> >> The release candidate artifacts (source release, as well as binary >> releases for 20 languages) and further information how to verify and >> review Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 (incubating) can be found on the >> following wiki page: >> >> hhttps://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds#DevelopmentSnapshotBuilds-AOO3.4.1 >> >> >> Please vote on releasing this package as Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 >> (incubating). >> >> The vote starts now and will be open until: >> >> Thursday, 2 August: 2012-08-02 6:00pm UTC+2. >> >> After the vote of the PPMC the vote will start on >> [email protected] mailing and will be open for further 72 hours. >> But we invite all people to vote (non binding) on this RC. We would like >> to provide a release that is supported by the majority of our project >> members. >> >> [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 3.4 (incubating) >> [ ] 0 Don't care >> [ ] -1 Do not release this package because... >> >
