Re: Release communications -- plans
On 18/07/2013 Rob Weir wrote: The Release Notes are starting to look very nice. It is worth reviewing if you have not looked recently: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes Indeed, they are nice. The part introducing the Sidebar is very good too. Just a question: we will be promoting this Cwiki page, but: 1) I recall seeing that there was a static version available for each page, which was the recommended one for publishing links (and had a URL ending in .html). I can't see it now. What is the link we should publish? 2) May we get rid of the Upgraded to 3.5.17. Upgrade to 5.1 delayed. notice in the page header? We've probably get used to it (it's about the Cwiki upgrade, nothing to do with OpenOffice) and we don't notice it any longer since it has been there for weeks, but a lot of people are likely to mistake it for a notice about the OpenOffice upgrades. Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Release communications -- plans
Am 07/19/2013 08:03 AM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: On 18/07/2013 Rob Weir wrote: The Release Notes are starting to look very nice. It is worth reviewing if you have not looked recently: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes Indeed, they are nice. The part introducing the Sidebar is very good too. Just a question: we will be promoting this Cwiki page, but: 1) I recall seeing that there was a static version available for each page, which was the recommended one for publishing links (and had a URL ending in .html). I can't see it now. What is the link we should publish? Release Notes to all OOo and AOO versions are here: http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/ So, for 4.0 I would expect: http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/4.0.0.html 2) May we get rid of the Upgraded to 3.5.17. Upgrade to 5.1 delayed. notice in the page header? We've probably get used to it (it's about the Cwiki upgrade, nothing to do with OpenOffice) and we don't notice it any longer since it has been there for weeks, but a lot of people are likely to mistake it for a notice about the OpenOffice upgrades. Does someone from our project has inserted the hint? I thought it was an Infra topic. If it's possible than yes, it should be deleted. Marcus - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC2)
On 7/17/13 9:40 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: Hi all, this is a call for vote on releasing the following release candidate (RC2 revision 1503704) as Apache OpenOffice 4.0. This will be an important release for Apache OpenOffice with bigger visible UI changes. It is a key milestone to continue the success of OpenOffice. This release candidate provides the following important changes compared to former OpenOffice releases: (1) a major UI change/improvement by introducing a new sidebar concept where the idea is the comes from IBM's Symphony. It's the combination of reimplementing a complete new framework for sidebars and merging the existing sidebar in impress and code of various content panels from the Symphony grant in OpenOffice. (2) 190 fixes from Symphony are merged and integrated, mainly interoperability issues (3) 600 defects are fixed (4) many more features and improvements are integrated For a detailed feature overview please see the release notes under https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes. But keep in mind that the release notes are not yet final and will be updated and polished ... The release candidate artifacts (source release, as well as binary releases for 23 languages) and further information how to verify and review Apache OpenOffice 4.0 can be found on the following wiki page: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds#DevelopmentSnapshotBuilds-AOOSnapshot The related and updated RAT scan for this RC can be found under http://people.apache.org/~jsc/aoo-4.0.0_rat/aoo-4.0.0_rat-output.html The RC is based on the release branch AOO400, revision 1503704! Please vote on releasing this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0. The vote starts now and will be open until: UTC 3:00pm on Friday, 19 July: 2013-07-19 3:00 UTC. 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 4.0 [ ] 0 Don't care [ ] -1 Do not release this package because... +1 from me I have done my normal test routine, have built the src release , have played with the SDK and the office. Looks fine for to me. Juergen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Release communications -- plans
2013/7/18 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org The Release Notes are starting to look very nice. It is worth reviewing if you have not looked recently: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes I noticed that the gatekeeper notice is twice on the release notes and with the same text, one under known issues and the other near the end, under upgrading/installation, is that intended? Maybe the second one should be shorter, pointing to the known issues? BTW, ES translation is ready. Regards Ricardo This is the primary statement of what is in the release. The introductory sections are general enough that this page can be used as a self-contained announcement message. It doesn't require additional context. However, we will have additional announcement statements. 1) There will be a press release. This repeats a subset of the contents of the release nots, but it the format and style that is expected in a press release. Don Harbison took the lead on drafting that. 2) We should also have a brief blog post. Maybe only a paragraph or two and then a link to the Release Notes. I don't want to spend too much time on the blog post since I am almost certain the blog will crash under load. For that reason I'd recommend that we don't promote the blog page via social media, etc., Promote the Release Notes instead. In the past we've translated the blog post. But in this case I'd recommend we focus on translating the Release Notes. 3) A brief announcement to our mailing lists, including the 9000 subscribers of our announcement mailing list. Again, linking back to the Release Notes. 4) Posts to Twitter, Google+, Facebook, etc. This is something where everyone can help spread the news, by sharing, +1'ing, RT'ing,. etc. Regards, -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC2)
+1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0 I have successfully installed RC2 on Win7, Mac, Ubuntu and RHEL. I play with the Writer, Calc, Impress for a while, there are no new critical issues to prevent releasing it. Regards, Yu Zhen On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.comwrote: On 7/17/13 9:40 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: Hi all, this is a call for vote on releasing the following release candidate (RC2 revision 1503704) as Apache OpenOffice 4.0. This will be an important release for Apache OpenOffice with bigger visible UI changes. It is a key milestone to continue the success of OpenOffice. This release candidate provides the following important changes compared to former OpenOffice releases: (1) a major UI change/improvement by introducing a new sidebar concept where the idea is the comes from IBM's Symphony. It's the combination of reimplementing a complete new framework for sidebars and merging the existing sidebar in impress and code of various content panels from the Symphony grant in OpenOffice. (2) 190 fixes from Symphony are merged and integrated, mainly interoperability issues (3) 600 defects are fixed (4) many more features and improvements are integrated For a detailed feature overview please see the release notes under https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes . But keep in mind that the release notes are not yet final and will be updated and polished ... The release candidate artifacts (source release, as well as binary releases for 23 languages) and further information how to verify and review Apache OpenOffice 4.0 can be found on the following wiki page: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds#DevelopmentSnapshotBuilds-AOOSnapshot The related and updated RAT scan for this RC can be found under http://people.apache.org/~jsc/aoo-4.0.0_rat/aoo-4.0.0_rat-output.html The RC is based on the release branch AOO400, revision 1503704! Please vote on releasing this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0. The vote starts now and will be open until: UTC 3:00pm on Friday, 19 July: 2013-07-19 3:00 UTC. 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 4.0 [ ] 0 Don't care [ ] -1 Do not release this package because... +1 from me I have done my normal test routine, have built the src release , have played with the SDK and the office. Looks fine for to me. Juergen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
[QA][Test Report] Weekly Status Update as of 20130719
Hi All, We complete release candidate acceptance test on RC1 and RC2, as well as the defect verification we can do, here is the weekly update (07/15 - 07/19): *Test execution:* 1. Release candidate acceptance test - please see detail in TestLink We have completed 76 executions dedicated for release candidate, no new critical issues are found in RC2 2. Release candidate acceptance test - test guidance here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+RC+Acceptance+Test+Guidance *Defect summary:* 1. Defect verification(with flag 4.0.0_release_blocker+) : there are 39 bugs in backlog now, among of them, 16 are for translation, 11 are for code, which need actions from native reporters and development, respectively Accomplished this week (only for Function UI) Verified/FixedReopenedWait for buildLook for env/platform New fixed/added in backlog 90015 Backlog at end of this week TotalL10NFunction CodeFunction UI 39161112 *Issues quality highlight:* 1. Windows 8 crash is reported on RC1 and get fixed in RC2 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=122752 2. There are no new critical issues are found on RC2, Vote for RC2 will being closed this Friday(7/19) * Volunteer status: * 1. 6 volunteers are on test execution work for RC 2. No volunteers are for left translation defects' verification * Plan for next week:* 1. Work with volunteers to verify defects as release blocker (total 39) Thanks you all for effort this week, we are towards to the release of AOO 4.0, we are almost there!! Regards, Yu Zhen
Re: [VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC2)
On 17/07/2013 Jürgen Schmidt wrote: this is a call for vote on releasing the following release candidate (RC2 revision 1503704) as Apache OpenOffice 4.0. ... [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0 [ ] 0 Don't care [ ] -1 Do not release this package because... +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0 Andrea - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC2)
+1 Armin On 17.07.2013 09:40, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: Hi all, this is a call for vote on releasing the following release candidate (RC2 revision 1503704) as Apache OpenOffice 4.0. This will be an important release for Apache OpenOffice with bigger visible UI changes. It is a key milestone to continue the success of OpenOffice. This release candidate provides the following important changes compared to former OpenOffice releases: (1) a major UI change/improvement by introducing a new sidebar concept where the idea is the comes from IBM's Symphony. It's the combination of reimplementing a complete new framework for sidebars and merging the existing sidebar in impress and code of various content panels from the Symphony grant in OpenOffice. (2) 190 fixes from Symphony are merged and integrated, mainly interoperability issues (3) 600 defects are fixed (4) many more features and improvements are integrated For a detailed feature overview please see the release notes under https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes. But keep in mind that the release notes are not yet final and will be updated and polished ... The release candidate artifacts (source release, as well as binary releases for 23 languages) and further information how to verify and review Apache OpenOffice 4.0 can be found on the following wiki page: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds#DevelopmentSnapshotBuilds-AOOSnapshot The related and updated RAT scan for this RC can be found under http://people.apache.org/~jsc/aoo-4.0.0_rat/aoo-4.0.0_rat-output.html The RC is based on the release branch AOO400, revision 1503704! Please vote on releasing this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0. The vote starts now and will be open until: UTC 3:00pm on Friday, 19 July: 2013-07-19 3:00 UTC. 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 4.0 [ ] 0 Don't care [ ] -1 Do not release this package because... - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- ALG - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Release communications -- plans
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 18/07/2013 Rob Weir wrote: The Release Notes are starting to look very nice. It is worth reviewing if you have not looked recently: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes Indeed, they are nice. The part introducing the Sidebar is very good too. Just a question: we will be promoting this Cwiki page, but: 1) I recall seeing that there was a static version available for each page, which was the recommended one for publishing links (and had a URL ending in .html). I can't see it now. What is the link we should publish? The Press Release went out with a link to the CWiki version of the Release Notes (the only version we have). The blog post links to that as well, though that can be changed if someone makes a static version. 2) May we get rid of the Upgraded to 3.5.17. Upgrade to 5.1 delayed. notice in the page header? We've probably get used to it (it's about the Cwiki upgrade, nothing to do with OpenOffice) and we don't notice it any longer since it has been there for weeks, but a lot of people are likely to mistake it for a notice about the OpenOffice upgrades. If you press the '[' key you can eliminate the navigator on the left, but I don't see a special URL for that. It would be great if there was a special URL that would show only the page contents without the nav or header. Regards, -Rob Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Release communications -- plans
Marcus (OOo) wrote: Am 07/19/2013 08:03 AM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: 1) I recall seeing that there was a static version available for each page, which was the recommended one for publishing links (and had a URL ending in .html). I can't see it now. What is the link we should publish? http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/4.0.0.html Sorry, I meant the static version of the cwiki page. The cwiki pages exist in two versions, the live one and a static one that is automatically generated (and, possibly, handles the traffic better?). In the meantime I found it: the static version of https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes is https://cwiki.apache.org/OOOUSERS/aoo-40-release-notes.html but the former actually looks nicer... As for the www.openoffice.org page, if I get it right we won't be copying the release notes to the website right now: we will use the cwiki version at release time. 2) May we get rid of the Upgraded to 3.5.17. Upgrade to 5.1 delayed. notice in the page header? ... Does someone from our project has inserted the hint? I thought it was an Infra topic. Yes, this was added by Infra when they upgraded Cwiki. The static version does not display it. Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
[PROPOSAL] End-of-Life for OpenOffice.org 3.3.0
We currently have this link from the download page,from 2009, announcing end-of-life for OpenOffice.org 2.x: http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/eol.html I'd like to update that page to also state that 3.x version prior to 3.4.x are also end-of-life. Why? We're unlikely to issue any more security patches for 3.3.0 or earlier. So the concrete proposal is: 1) Update the eol.html page to state that OOo 3.3.0 and earlier are no longer supported. 2) Create a new landing page for users of OOo 3.3.0 and before who are using a language version that we do not yet have a translation. Explain in this page that the earlier versions are no longer supported. List what translations are currently available and where they can be downloaded from. Give information on how they can volunteer to help translate AOO into their native language. 3) Configure the update notification server to OOo 3.3.0 users to this new landing page, if their language is not already translated. (Where there is a translation we already point them to the download page) 4) Blog post/announcement on end-of-life for OOo 3.3.0 and earlier. The end result is that: 1) We made it clear what versions are supported. 2) We did our due diligence to reach out to users of older versions. 3) We encourage new translation volunteers. No rush on this. It does not need to be done at the same time as the 4.0 announcement. It can follow a week or so later. -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Release preparation
Hi, the page http://openoffice.apache.org/downloads.html have to be updated. Currently I ma struggling to access http://www.apache.org/dist/openoffice or the already existing KEYS file http://www.apache.org/dist/openoffice/KEYS I am in contact with infra... There is also an Url used to the SDK using the mirrors http://www.apache.org/dyn/aoo-closer.cgi/incubator/ooo/files/stable/3.4.1/Apache_OpenOffice_incubating-SDK_3.4.1_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz I am not sure if aoo-closer-cgi have to be changed and who can do that. I would expect a new Url like http://www.apache.org/dyn/aoo-closer.cgi/openoffice/4.0.0/binaries/SDK/Apache_OpenOffice-SDK_4.0.0_MacOS_x86_install_en-US.dmg Does anybody know more? Juergen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [PROPOSAL] End-of-Life for OpenOffice.org 3.3.0
+1 On Jul 19, 2013, at 5:20 AM, Rob Weir wrote: We currently have this link from the download page,from 2009, announcing end-of-life for OpenOffice.org 2.x: http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/eol.html I'd like to update that page to also state that 3.x version prior to 3.4.x are also end-of-life. Why? We're unlikely to issue any more security patches for 3.3.0 or earlier. So the concrete proposal is: 1) Update the eol.html page to state that OOo 3.3.0 and earlier are no longer supported. 2) Create a new landing page for users of OOo 3.3.0 and before who are using a language version that we do not yet have a translation. Explain in this page that the earlier versions are no longer supported. List what translations are currently available and where they can be downloaded from. Give information on how they can volunteer to help translate AOO into their native language. 3) Configure the update notification server to OOo 3.3.0 users to this new landing page, if their language is not already translated. (Where there is a translation we already point them to the download page) 4) Blog post/announcement on end-of-life for OOo 3.3.0 and earlier. The end result is that: 1) We made it clear what versions are supported. 2) We did our due diligence to reach out to users of older versions. 3) We encourage new translation volunteers. No rush on this. It does not need to be done at the same time as the 4.0 announcement. It can follow a week or so later. -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC2)
On 17.07.2013 09:40, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: [...] The RC is based on the release branch AOO400, revision 1503704! Please vote on releasing this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0. The vote starts now and will be open until: UTC 3:00pm on Friday, 19 July: 2013-07-19 3:00 UTC. 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 4.0 [ ] 0 Don't care [ ] -1 Do not release this package because... +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0 Herbert - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC2)
+1 Thanks, khirano On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, this is a call for vote on releasing the following release candidate (RC2 revision 1503704) as Apache OpenOffice 4.0. This will be an important release for Apache OpenOffice with bigger visible UI changes. It is a key milestone to continue the success of OpenOffice. This release candidate provides the following important changes compared to former OpenOffice releases: (1) a major UI change/improvement by introducing a new sidebar concept where the idea is the comes from IBM's Symphony. It's the combination of reimplementing a complete new framework for sidebars and merging the existing sidebar in impress and code of various content panels from the Symphony grant in OpenOffice. (2) 190 fixes from Symphony are merged and integrated, mainly interoperability issues (3) 600 defects are fixed (4) many more features and improvements are integrated For a detailed feature overview please see the release notes under https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes . But keep in mind that the release notes are not yet final and will be updated and polished ... The release candidate artifacts (source release, as well as binary releases for 23 languages) and further information how to verify and review Apache OpenOffice 4.0 can be found on the following wiki page: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds#DevelopmentSnapshotBuilds-AOOSnapshot The related and updated RAT scan for this RC can be found under http://people.apache.org/~jsc/aoo-4.0.0_rat/aoo-4.0.0_rat-output.html The RC is based on the release branch AOO400, revision 1503704! Please vote on releasing this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0. The vote starts now and will be open until: UTC 3:00pm on Friday, 19 July: 2013-07-19 3:00 UTC. 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 4.0 [ ] 0 Don't care [ ] -1 Do not release this package because... - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- khir...@apache.org Apache OpenOffice http://openoffice.apache.org
Re: [PROPOSAL] End-of-Life for OpenOffice.org 3.3.0
+1 rgds jan i On Jul 19, 2013 2:53 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: +1 On Jul 19, 2013, at 5:20 AM, Rob Weir wrote: We currently have this link from the download page,from 2009, announcing end-of-life for OpenOffice.org 2.x: http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/eol.html I'd like to update that page to also state that 3.x version prior to 3.4.x are also end-of-life. Why? We're unlikely to issue any more security patches for 3.3.0 or earlier. So the concrete proposal is: 1) Update the eol.html page to state that OOo 3.3.0 and earlier are no longer supported. 2) Create a new landing page for users of OOo 3.3.0 and before who are using a language version that we do not yet have a translation. Explain in this page that the earlier versions are no longer supported. List what translations are currently available and where they can be downloaded from. Give information on how they can volunteer to help translate AOO into their native language. 3) Configure the update notification server to OOo 3.3.0 users to this new landing page, if their language is not already translated. (Where there is a translation we already point them to the download page) 4) Blog post/announcement on end-of-life for OOo 3.3.0 and earlier. The end result is that: 1) We made it clear what versions are supported. 2) We did our due diligence to reach out to users of older versions. 3) We encourage new translation volunteers. No rush on this. It does not need to be done at the same time as the 4.0 announcement. It can follow a week or so later. -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [PROPOSAL] End-of-Life for OpenOffice.org 3.3.0
On 7/19/13 2:20 PM, Rob Weir wrote: We currently have this link from the download page,from 2009, announcing end-of-life for OpenOffice.org 2.x: http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/eol.html I'd like to update that page to also state that 3.x version prior to 3.4.x are also end-of-life. Why? We're unlikely to issue any more security patches for 3.3.0 or earlier. So the concrete proposal is: 1) Update the eol.html page to state that OOo 3.3.0 and earlier are no longer supported. 2) Create a new landing page for users of OOo 3.3.0 and before who are using a language version that we do not yet have a translation. Explain in this page that the earlier versions are no longer supported. List what translations are currently available and where they can be downloaded from. Give information on how they can volunteer to help translate AOO into their native language. 3) Configure the update notification server to OOo 3.3.0 users to this new landing page, if their language is not already translated. (Where there is a translation we already point them to the download page) 4) Blog post/announcement on end-of-life for OOo 3.3.0 and earlier. The end result is that: 1) We made it clear what versions are supported. 2) We did our due diligence to reach out to users of older versions. 3) We encourage new translation volunteers. No rush on this. It does not need to be done at the same time as the 4.0 announcement. It can follow a week or so later. +1 Juergen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC2)
Downloaded the tar.bz2, checked the MD5 and SHA256 checksums, built and started. Everything OK +1 Andre On 17.07.2013 09:40, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: Hi all, this is a call for vote on releasing the following release candidate (RC2 revision 1503704) as Apache OpenOffice 4.0. This will be an important release for Apache OpenOffice with bigger visible UI changes. It is a key milestone to continue the success of OpenOffice. This release candidate provides the following important changes compared to former OpenOffice releases: (1) a major UI change/improvement by introducing a new sidebar concept where the idea is the comes from IBM's Symphony. It's the combination of reimplementing a complete new framework for sidebars and merging the existing sidebar in impress and code of various content panels from the Symphony grant in OpenOffice. (2) 190 fixes from Symphony are merged and integrated, mainly interoperability issues (3) 600 defects are fixed (4) many more features and improvements are integrated For a detailed feature overview please see the release notes under https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes. But keep in mind that the release notes are not yet final and will be updated and polished ... The release candidate artifacts (source release, as well as binary releases for 23 languages) and further information how to verify and review Apache OpenOffice 4.0 can be found on the following wiki page: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds#DevelopmentSnapshotBuilds-AOOSnapshot The related and updated RAT scan for this RC can be found under http://people.apache.org/~jsc/aoo-4.0.0_rat/aoo-4.0.0_rat-output.html The RC is based on the release branch AOO400, revision 1503704! Please vote on releasing this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0. The vote starts now and will be open until: UTC 3:00pm on Friday, 19 July: 2013-07-19 3:00 UTC. 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 4.0 [ ] 0 Don't care [ ] -1 Do not release this package because... - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
[RESULT][VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC2)
The vote period to release the RC2 (based on release branch AOO40, revision 1503704) as Apache OpenOffice 4.0 has ended. The ballot result in 24 votes, 24 +1 votes including 14 binding PMC member votes. 3 binding +1 votes are necessary for the release. That means the ballot closed successful to release the RC2 as AOO 4.0 Vote tally +1 Jan Iversen (binding) +1 Keith McKenna +1 Olaf Felka +1 Sylvain Denis +1 Marco A.G. Pinto +1 V Stuart Foote +1 Samer Mansour +1 Ricardo Berlasso (binding) +1 Rory O'Farrell +1 Rob Weir (binding) +1 Shengfeng Liu +1 Kay Schenk (binding) +1 Marcus Lange (binding) +1 Regina Henschel (binding) +1 Andrew Rist (binding) +1 Donald Harbison (binding) +1 Xuacu +1 Juergen Schmidt (binding) +1 Yuzhen Fan +1 Andrea Pescetti (binding) +1 Armin Le Grand (binding) +1 Herbert Duerr (binding) +1 Kazunari Hirano (binding) +1 Andre Fischer (binding) Thanks Juergen On 7/17/13 9:40 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: Hi all, this is a call for vote on releasing the following release candidate (RC2 revision 1503704) as Apache OpenOffice 4.0. This will be an important release for Apache OpenOffice with bigger visible UI changes. It is a key milestone to continue the success of OpenOffice. This release candidate provides the following important changes compared to former OpenOffice releases: (1) a major UI change/improvement by introducing a new sidebar concept where the idea is the comes from IBM's Symphony. It's the combination of reimplementing a complete new framework for sidebars and merging the existing sidebar in impress and code of various content panels from the Symphony grant in OpenOffice. (2) 190 fixes from Symphony are merged and integrated, mainly interoperability issues (3) 600 defects are fixed (4) many more features and improvements are integrated For a detailed feature overview please see the release notes under https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes. But keep in mind that the release notes are not yet final and will be updated and polished ... The release candidate artifacts (source release, as well as binary releases for 23 languages) and further information how to verify and review Apache OpenOffice 4.0 can be found on the following wiki page: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds#DevelopmentSnapshotBuilds-AOOSnapshot The related and updated RAT scan for this RC can be found under http://people.apache.org/~jsc/aoo-4.0.0_rat/aoo-4.0.0_rat-output.html The RC is based on the release branch AOO400, revision 1503704! Please vote on releasing this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0. The vote starts now and will be open until: UTC 3:00pm on Friday, 19 July: 2013-07-19 3:00 UTC. 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 4.0 [ ] 0 Don't care [ ] -1 Do not release this package because... - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
[RELEASE]: availability of uploads and synchronize SF mirrors
The vote closed successful and I have once again uploaded the files in the dist are on the people server. /www/www.apache.org/dist/openoffice/4.0.0 The relevant files for SF are under /www/www.apache.org/dist/extgernaldist/openoffice/4.0.0 I hope the rsync url works now, if not please contact the infra people directly. rsync Url: rsync.apache.org::apache-dist-external A complete file list can you find here http://people.apache.org/~jsc/aoo4.0_files_dist-openoffice-4.0.0.txt http://people.apache.org/~jsc/aoo4.0_files_dist-externaldist-openoffice-4.0.0.txt As I mentioned earlier I will be not available until next week Thursday. But I hope I can follow the release a little bit to have some fun with you all together ;-) Juergen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [RESULT][VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC2)
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.comwrote: The vote period to release the RC2 (based on release branch AOO40, revision 1503704) as Apache OpenOffice 4.0 has ended. The ballot result in 24 votes, 24 +1 votes including 14 binding PMC member votes. 3 binding +1 votes are necessary for the release. That means the ballot closed successful to release the RC2 as AOO 4.0 Vote tally +1 Jan Iversen (binding) +1 Keith McKenna +1 Olaf Felka +1 Sylvain Denis +1 Marco A.G. Pinto +1 V Stuart Foote +1 Samer Mansour +1 Ricardo Berlasso (binding) +1 Rory O'Farrell +1 Rob Weir (binding) +1 Shengfeng Liu +1 Kay Schenk (binding) +1 Marcus Lange (binding) +1 Regina Henschel (binding) +1 Andrew Rist (binding) +1 Donald Harbison (binding) +1 Xuacu +1 Juergen Schmidt (binding) +1 Yuzhen Fan +1 Andrea Pescetti (binding) +1 Armin Le Grand (binding) +1 Herbert Duerr (binding) +1 Kazunari Hirano (binding) +1 Andre Fischer (binding) Thanks Juergen Imacat voted -1. Is he non-binding? Don
Re: [RESULT][VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC2)
On 7/19/13 5:07 PM, Donald Whytock wrote: On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.comwrote: The vote period to release the RC2 (based on release branch AOO40, revision 1503704) as Apache OpenOffice 4.0 has ended. The ballot result in 24 votes, 24 +1 votes including 14 binding PMC member votes. 3 binding +1 votes are necessary for the release. That means the ballot closed successful to release the RC2 as AOO 4.0 Vote tally +1 Jan Iversen (binding) +1 Keith McKenna +1 Olaf Felka +1 Sylvain Denis +1 Marco A.G. Pinto +1 V Stuart Foote +1 Samer Mansour +1 Ricardo Berlasso (binding) +1 Rory O'Farrell +1 Rob Weir (binding) +1 Shengfeng Liu +1 Kay Schenk (binding) +1 Marcus Lange (binding) +1 Regina Henschel (binding) +1 Andrew Rist (binding) +1 Donald Harbison (binding) +1 Xuacu +1 Juergen Schmidt (binding) +1 Yuzhen Fan +1 Andrea Pescetti (binding) +1 Armin Le Grand (binding) +1 Herbert Duerr (binding) +1 Kazunari Hirano (binding) +1 Andre Fischer (binding) Thanks Juergen Imacat voted -1. Is he non-binding? the vote was not valid from my perspective because she voted on something that was part of the vote. I haven't count it but of course it would not change the result. And I believe imacat made it clear in a later response. Juergen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [RESULT][VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC2)
On Jul 19, 2013, at 9:09 AM, janI wrote: On 19 July 2013 17:11, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/19/13 5:07 PM, Donald Whytock wrote: On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: The vote period to release the RC2 (based on release branch AOO40, revision 1503704) as Apache OpenOffice 4.0 has ended. The ballot result in 24 votes, 24 +1 votes including 14 binding PMC member votes. 3 binding +1 votes are necessary for the release. That means the ballot closed successful to release the RC2 as AOO 4.0 Vote tally +1 Jan Iversen (binding) +1 Keith McKenna +1 Olaf Felka +1 Sylvain Denis +1 Marco A.G. Pinto +1 V Stuart Foote +1 Samer Mansour +1 Ricardo Berlasso (binding) +1 Rory O'Farrell +1 Rob Weir (binding) +1 Shengfeng Liu +1 Kay Schenk (binding) +1 Marcus Lange (binding) +1 Regina Henschel (binding) +1 Andrew Rist (binding) +1 Donald Harbison (binding) +1 Xuacu +1 Juergen Schmidt (binding) +1 Yuzhen Fan +1 Andrea Pescetti (binding) +1 Armin Le Grand (binding) +1 Herbert Duerr (binding) +1 Kazunari Hirano (binding) +1 Andre Fischer (binding) Thanks Juergen Imacat voted -1. Is he non-binding? the vote was not valid from my perspective because she voted on something that was part of the vote. I haven't count it but of course it would not change the result. And I believe imacat made it clear in a later response. Hi I know it does not change anything, but imacat did not withdraw her -1, so it should be in the tally for the record. The vote is binding and should be counted. It is in principle no good, that a single person decides if a vote is valid or not, it sort of invalidates the idea of voting. imacat's VOTE was not a Veto as you cannot veto a release. Since it was not a VETO situation there is no invalidation. Please count her VOTE as (binding) In a sense this is different from Rapheal's -1 which was agreed by acclamation once the flaw was obvious. Thank you. rgds jan I. Juergen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Release communications -- plans
Rob Weir wrote: The Release Notes are starting to look very nice. It is worth reviewing if you have not looked recently: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes Just a small typo I suppose: http://wiki.openoffice.org/w/images/c/ce/120017_MS.jpg http://wiki.openoffice.org/w/images/d/da/120017_AOO341.jpg http://wiki.openoffice.org/w/images/f/f0/120017_AOO40.jpg ;) Also maybe something like: http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/3027/gebv.png or http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/396/djx.png instead of https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/30746475/NewPalette.png?version=1modificationDate=1373893875128 And the same for https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/30746475/NewGradients.png?version=1modificationDate=1373893817690 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [PROPOSAL] End-of-Life for OpenOffice.org 3.3.0
Am 07/19/2013 02:20 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: We currently have this link from the download page,from 2009, announcing end-of-life for OpenOffice.org 2.x: http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/eol.html I'd like to update that page to also state that 3.x version prior to 3.4.x are also end-of-life. Why? We're unlikely to issue any more security patches for 3.3.0 or earlier. So the concrete proposal is: 1) Update the eol.html page to state that OOo 3.3.0 and earlier are no longer supported. IMHO it's worth it to keep the old content for reference. So, better to add a section for OOo 3.3.0 instead of overwriting the stuff. 2) Create a new landing page for users of OOo 3.3.0 and before who are using a language version that we do not yet have a translation. Explain in this page that the earlier versions are no longer supported. List what translations are currently available and where they can be downloaded from. Give information on how they can volunteer to help translate AOO into their native language. 3) Configure the update notification server to OOo 3.3.0 users to this new landing page, if their language is not already translated. (Where there is a translation we already point them to the download page) 4) Blog post/announcement on end-of-life for OOo 3.3.0 and earlier. The end result is that: 1) We made it clear what versions are supported. 2) We did our due diligence to reach out to users of older versions. 3) We encourage new translation volunteers. No rush on this. It does not need to be done at the same time as the 4.0 announcement. It can follow a week or so later. +1 Marcus - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Release communications -- plans
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 07/19/2013 04:56 PM, schrieb Kay Schenk: On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Rob Weirrobw...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Andrea Pescettipesce...@apache.org wrote: On 18/07/2013 Rob Weir wrote: The Release Notes are starting to look very nice. It is worth reviewing if you have not looked recently: https://cwiki.apache.org/**confluence/display/OOOUSERS/** AOO+4.0+Release+Noteshttps://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes Indeed, they are nice. The part introducing the Sidebar is very good too. Just a question: we will be promoting this Cwiki page, but: 1) I recall seeing that there was a static version available for each page, which was the recommended one for publishing links (and had a URL ending in .html). I can't see it now. What is the link we should publish? The Press Release went out with a link to the CWiki version of the Release Notes (the only version we have). The blog post links to that as well, though that can be changed if someone makes a static version. The Release Notes on the wiki are really really super! Maybe the most beautiful Release Notes I have ever seen! :) +1, really well done! What I was planning to do -- as soon as additional editing on the release note stabilize -- is: 1. make an HTML copy *only* as backup and port that to: http://www.openoffice.org/**development/releases/4.0.0.**html/http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/4.0.0.html/ (so you will see this in the commit logs) 2. Set up a new link in: http://www.openoffice.org/**development/releases/index.**htmlhttp://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/index.htmlfor 4.0.0 but link it to the CWiki version. Does that sound OK? Yes, if you need help just give me a note. Thanks. I've done this a few times so hopefully no glitches with this one. The static HTML that gets rendered is exactly what is shown in: https://cwiki.apache.org/OOOUSERS/aoo-40-release-notes.html which I also did not know about. Marcus 2) May we get rid of the Upgraded to 3.5.17. Upgrade to 5.1 delayed. notice in the page header? We've probably get used to it (it's about the Cwiki upgrade, nothing to do with OpenOffice) and we don't notice it any longer since it has been there for weeks, but a lot of people are likely to mistake it for a notice about the OpenOffice upgrades. If you press the '[' key you can eliminate the navigator on the left, but I don't see a special URL for that. It would be great if there was a special URL that would show only the page contents without the nav or header. Regards, -Rob Regards, Andrea. --**--**- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@openoffice.**apache.orgdev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- - MzK Success is falling nine times and getting up ten. -- Jon Bon Jovi
Re: Release communications -- plans
Am 07/19/2013 04:56 PM, schrieb Kay Schenk: On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Rob Weirrobw...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Andrea Pescettipesce...@apache.org wrote: On 18/07/2013 Rob Weir wrote: The Release Notes are starting to look very nice. It is worth reviewing if you have not looked recently: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes Indeed, they are nice. The part introducing the Sidebar is very good too. Just a question: we will be promoting this Cwiki page, but: 1) I recall seeing that there was a static version available for each page, which was the recommended one for publishing links (and had a URL ending in .html). I can't see it now. What is the link we should publish? The Press Release went out with a link to the CWiki version of the Release Notes (the only version we have). The blog post links to that as well, though that can be changed if someone makes a static version. The Release Notes on the wiki are really really super! Maybe the most beautiful Release Notes I have ever seen! :) +1, really well done! What I was planning to do -- as soon as additional editing on the release note stabilize -- is: 1. make an HTML copy *only* as backup and port that to: http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/4.0.0.html/ (so you will see this in the commit logs) 2. Set up a new link in: http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/index.html for 4.0.0 but link it to the CWiki version. Does that sound OK? Yes, if you need help just give me a note. Marcus 2) May we get rid of the Upgraded to 3.5.17. Upgrade to 5.1 delayed. notice in the page header? We've probably get used to it (it's about the Cwiki upgrade, nothing to do with OpenOffice) and we don't notice it any longer since it has been there for weeks, but a lot of people are likely to mistake it for a notice about the OpenOffice upgrades. If you press the '[' key you can eliminate the navigator on the left, but I don't see a special URL for that. It would be great if there was a special URL that would show only the page contents without the nav or header. Regards, -Rob Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Release communications -- plans
Le 19/07/2013 16:56, Kay Schenk a écrit : On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 18/07/2013 Rob Weir wrote: The Release Notes are starting to look very nice. It is worth reviewing if you have not looked recently: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes Indeed, they are nice. The part introducing the Sidebar is very good too. Just a question: we will be promoting this Cwiki page, but: 1) I recall seeing that there was a static version available for each page, which was the recommended one for publishing links (and had a URL ending in .html). I can't see it now. What is the link we should publish? The Press Release went out with a link to the CWiki version of the Release Notes (the only version we have). The blog post links to that as well, though that can be changed if someone makes a static version. The Release Notes on the wiki are really really super! Maybe the most beautiful Release Notes I have ever seen! :) +1. Great release notes! Hagar - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [RESULT][VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC2)
Am Freitag, 19. Juli 2013 um 19:46 schrieb Andrea Pescetti: Dave Fisher wrote: On Jul 19, 2013, at 9:09 AM, janI wrote: It is in principle no good, that a single person decides if a vote is valid or not, it sort of invalidates the idea of voting. imacat's VOTE was not a Veto as you cannot veto a release. Enough misunderstandings here (I think that Jan was saying: Juergen cannot decide by himself whether a -1 is valid...). Anyway, let's update the tally to 24 +1 votes (14 binding) and 1 -1 vote (imacat, binding) and move on. As Juergen already wrote, we remain committed to make the traditional Chinese version available at the earliest occasion, it is already at 100% but it simply came too late to build/include it. In the meantime, it will be available as snapshot build. do whatever you want, from my point of view imacat voted on something that wasn't part of the vote. It remains an invalid vote for me. Juergen Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Release communications -- plans
Am Freitag, 19. Juli 2013 um 22:17 schrieb Hagar Delest: It has been reported several times already but since you link the landing page of the forum we need to remove the incubating logo top right of that page. imacat has not been seen on the forum for a long time, any volunteer to be admin? NB: this is not criticism, we all have our own agenda. But there are several items that have not evolved since Nov. 2011. well after my vacation you can count me in, I am interested to help but gave to learn more about the used software... Juergen Hagar Le 19/07/2013 08:03, Andrea Pescetti a écrit : On 18/07/2013 Rob Weir wrote: The Release Notes are starting to look very nice. It is worth reviewing if you have not looked recently: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes Indeed, they are nice. The part introducing the Sidebar is very good too. Just a question: we will be promoting this Cwiki page, but: 1) I recall seeing that there was a static version available for each page, which was the recommended one for publishing links (and had a URL ending in .html). I can't see it now. What is the link we should publish? 2) May we get rid of the Upgraded to 3.5.17. Upgrade to 5.1 delayed. notice in the page header? We've probably get used to it (it's about the Cwiki upgrade, nothing to do with OpenOffice) and we don't notice it any longer since it has been there for weeks, but a lot of people are likely to mistake it for a notice about the OpenOffice upgrades. Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [RELEASE]: availability of uploads and synchronize SF mirrors
Am 07/19/2013 05:16 PM, schrieb Jürgen Schmidt: The vote closed successful and I have once again uploaded the files in the dist are on the people server. /www/www.apache.org/dist/openoffice/4.0.0 The relevant files for SF are under /www/www.apache.org/dist/extgernaldist/openoffice/4.0.0 @Roberto: I have created a 4.0.0 staged directory (with sub-dirs and files) in: https://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/ If this interfere with the new upload just delete them. I don't want to do this. Maybe I would delete a running rsync by acccident. ;-) Marcus I hope the rsync url works now, if not please contact the infra people directly. rsync Url: rsync.apache.org::apache-dist-external A complete file list can you find here http://people.apache.org/~jsc/aoo4.0_files_dist-openoffice-4.0.0.txt http://people.apache.org/~jsc/aoo4.0_files_dist-externaldist-openoffice-4.0.0.txt As I mentioned earlier I will be not available until next week Thursday. But I hope I can follow the release a little bit to have some fun with you all together ;-) Juergen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
release media files
Howdy Folks, Long time no speak - I noticed the pedning the 4.0 release, read an email the other day regarding the use, or not so much, of the blog for an announcemtn and more social media. Thought perhaps you would like a short 'release announcement' type video perhaps. I took the liberty of spinning up a very brief such item, which you can find here: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bx7ZNEXlmR0IUTY1YzFhR1VLQU0/edit?usp=sharing [unzip the a4.mp4 video file from the uploaded zip container] This is just 13 seconds, very low key, I think classy however (course' I'm bias), I had in mind an audiance of those already using the suite and just waiting for the release - so useful maybe on FB or G+, but if it suits anyone please feel free to use it in any fashion you see fit. Now - one item, I have not been on-line much for many months (only 1 a week for a few hours on average) and have not kept up with the goings on, so, was not able to quickly find a vector graphic of what I take if the new logo, only - I did what I could using the PNG image I found on the wiki, but I'm sure there is a better image available. So, if anyone knows where a vector image for that logo can be found I appreciate it if you could ping back to this mail on the list with the URL. I would also like to offer, and have started, a second video. Longer, 45 - 90 sec. range, with a quick summary of new features. A little different audiance from the shorty here, I suppose. To start that I've downloaded all the information from the release notes page on the wiki, have used this to generate some raw screen video catpure for the GUI changes and will use, with your permission If I may, the graphics from the wiki for some of the file fidelity enhancements. On this second piece, the problem is likely of what *not* to include, if I want to hit the length mark above - that certainly would benefit from collaboration on the list here. Also, because I've not been following along the list on a reagular basis I'm not sure if anyone is dong somthing like that already, if so I would offer to help - otherwise, I planned on putting a first cut together over the weekedn and would make a copy to the list for merciless review (the best kind of course). If anyone wants to post on the list to the email with a script though - it wouldn't hurt at all ;) Thanks for all your had work, it shows in the product. //drew
Re: Release communications -- plans
Am 07/19/2013 11:04 AM, schrieb Ricardo Berlasso: 2013/7/18 Rob Weirrobw...@apache.org The Release Notes are starting to look very nice. It is worth reviewing if you have not looked recently: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes I noticed that the gatekeeper notice is twice on the release notes and with the same text, one under known issues and the other near the end, under upgrading/installation, is that intended? Maybe the second one should be shorter, pointing to the known issues? BTW, ES translation is ready. It looks really a bit too much duplicate. @Kay: AFAIK you have created the additional part. What do you think, can you shorten it with a reference to the known issue? Marcus This is the primary statement of what is in the release. The introductory sections are general enough that this page can be used as a self-contained announcement message. It doesn't require additional context. However, we will have additional announcement statements. 1) There will be a press release. This repeats a subset of the contents of the release nots, but it the format and style that is expected in a press release. Don Harbison took the lead on drafting that. 2) We should also have a brief blog post. Maybe only a paragraph or two and then a link to the Release Notes. I don't want to spend too much time on the blog post since I am almost certain the blog will crash under load. For that reason I'd recommend that we don't promote the blog page via social media, etc., Promote the Release Notes instead. In the past we've translated the blog post. But in this case I'd recommend we focus on translating the Release Notes. 3) A brief announcement to our mailing lists, including the 9000 subscribers of our announcement mailing list. Again, linking back to the Release Notes. 4) Posts to Twitter, Google+, Facebook, etc. This is something where everyone can help spread the news, by sharing, +1'ing, RT'ing,. etc. Regards, -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Release communications -- plans
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 18/07/2013 Rob Weir wrote: The Release Notes are starting to look very nice. It is worth reviewing if you have not looked recently: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes Indeed, they are nice. The part introducing the Sidebar is very good too. Just a question: we will be promoting this Cwiki page, but: 1) I recall seeing that there was a static version available for each page, which was the recommended one for publishing links (and had a URL ending in .html). I can't see it now. What is the link we should publish? The Press Release went out with a link to the CWiki version of the Release Notes (the only version we have). The blog post links to that as well, though that can be changed if someone makes a static version. The Release Notes on the wiki are really really super! Maybe the most beautiful Release Notes I have ever seen! :) What I was planning to do -- as soon as additional editing on the release note stabilize -- is: 1. make an HTML copy *only* as backup and port that to: http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/4.0.0.html/ (so you will see this in the commit logs) 2. Set up a new link in: http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/index.html for 4.0.0 but link it to the CWiki version. Does that sound OK? 2) May we get rid of the Upgraded to 3.5.17. Upgrade to 5.1 delayed. notice in the page header? We've probably get used to it (it's about the Cwiki upgrade, nothing to do with OpenOffice) and we don't notice it any longer since it has been there for weeks, but a lot of people are likely to mistake it for a notice about the OpenOffice upgrades. If you press the '[' key you can eliminate the navigator on the left, but I don't see a special URL for that. It would be great if there was a special URL that would show only the page contents without the nav or header. Regards, -Rob Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- - MzK Success is falling nine times and getting up ten. -- Jon Bon Jovi
