Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Ability to have Snap/Flatpak/etc. for bug hunting season

2020-05-09 Thread Dan Lewis



On 5/9/20 07:11, William Gathoye (LibreOffice) wrote:

Hello everyone,

While officially not in charge of LibreOfficeFR any more on Twitter,
some people are requesting why we don't have Flatpak/Snap packages for
prereleases versions as well?

Some contributors aren't eager to test because installing the current
.deb/.rpm could interfere with their current profile. Having a simple
Flatpak/Snap/AppImage packages could ease the ongoing bug hinting process.


This can be solved fairly easily is some steps are followed. If the 
pre-release version agrees with the current version (e.g.:6.4.4.2 and 
6.4.2.2 resp.), then the pre-release needs to be installed in parallel, 
both the installation file and the help file that goes with it. How to 
do this is on the LibreOffice website. Then the bootstrap file for 
6.4.4.2 needs to be modified. The /4 needs to be /6.4.4.2 (this requires 
administrative rights). If desired, with administrative rights, the 
entire 6.4.4.2 installation folder can be moved to /opt/ next to the 
6.4.2.2 version. Now when 6.4.4.2 is first run, a new folder appears in 
~/.config/libreoffice/.


I do this all of the time.

Dan



I know some images are not managed by TDF directly, but providing one
for those we officially support could help IMHO.

Regards,


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Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Ability to have Snap/Flatpak/etc. for bug hunting season

2020-05-09 Thread antonio . faccioli

Il 09.05.2020 13:53 Ilmari Lauhakangas ha scritto:

William Gathoye (LibreOffice) kirjoitti 9.5.2020 klo 14.11:

Hello everyone,

While officially not in charge of LibreOfficeFR any more on Twitter,
some people are requesting why we don't have Flatpak/Snap packages for
prereleases versions as well?

Some contributors aren't eager to test because installing the current
.deb/.rpm could interfere with their current profile. Having a simple
Flatpak/Snap/AppImage packages could ease the ongoing bug hinting 
process.


I know some images are not managed by TDF directly, but providing one
for those we officially support could help IMHO.


Flatpaks are the responsibility of Red Hat and Snaps of Canonical. I
would very much like things to stay that way in order to not burden
our release managers.

The appimage for 7.0 is rather fresh: 
https://libreoffice.soluzioniopen.com/


Antonio can be helped by solving open issues:
https://github.com/antoniofaccioli/libreoffice-appimage/issues

Ilmari


The appimage version for 7.0 (alpha1) is available here 
https://libreoffice.soluzioniopen.com/index.php/7-0-pre-releases/


The appimage packages can be used for the bug hunting session as 
indicated on the wiki

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHuntingSession/7.0.0Apha

Antonio



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Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Ability to have Snap/Flatpak/etc. for bug hunting season

2020-05-09 Thread Ilmari Lauhakangas

William Gathoye (LibreOffice) kirjoitti 9.5.2020 klo 14.11:

Hello everyone,

While officially not in charge of LibreOfficeFR any more on Twitter,
some people are requesting why we don't have Flatpak/Snap packages for
prereleases versions as well?

Some contributors aren't eager to test because installing the current
.deb/.rpm could interfere with their current profile. Having a simple
Flatpak/Snap/AppImage packages could ease the ongoing bug hinting process.

I know some images are not managed by TDF directly, but providing one
for those we officially support could help IMHO.


Flatpaks are the responsibility of Red Hat and Snaps of Canonical. I 
would very much like things to stay that way in order to not burden our 
release managers.


The appimage for 7.0 is rather fresh: https://libreoffice.soluzioniopen.com/

Antonio can be helped by solving open issues: 
https://github.com/antoniofaccioli/libreoffice-appimage/issues


Ilmari
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[Libreoffice-qa] Ability to have Snap/Flatpak/etc. for bug hunting season

2020-05-09 Thread William Gathoye (LibreOffice)
Hello everyone,

While officially not in charge of LibreOfficeFR any more on Twitter,
some people are requesting why we don't have Flatpak/Snap packages for
prereleases versions as well?

Some contributors aren't eager to test because installing the current
.deb/.rpm could interfere with their current profile. Having a simple
Flatpak/Snap/AppImage packages could ease the ongoing bug hinting process.

I know some images are not managed by TDF directly, but providing one
for those we officially support could help IMHO.

Regards,

-- 
William Gathoye
Hypertive volunteer for LibreOffice
Proud member of The Document Foundation
Member of LaMouette - French based association promoting ODF and LibreOffice
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