Am Donnerstag, 6. März 2014 um 09:55 schrieb Jürgen Schmidt: > Hi all, > > this is a call for vote on releasing the available release candidate > (RC) as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 Beta. The Beta release is intended to > reach more early adopters and to receive more valuable feedback to > improve potentially critical areas for the final release. > > Apache OpenOffice 4.1 is a minor update with many bugfixes and at least > 2 major improvements. It's the first version where we have the > iAccessibility2 support integrated and available. A very huge step > forward to reach and better support disabled users especially on > Windows. The second improvement is the switch to 64 bit on MacOS. A long > and overdue "must do" shift forward to support newer APIs (replace > deprecated APIs) and platforms on MacOS. > And we can provide again more complete UI translations and have now > support for 37 languages. New languages for this release compared to > 4.0.1 are Bulgarian, Danish, Hindi, Norwegian Bokmal and Thai. > > Apache OpenOffice 4.1 will be a further key milestone to continue the > success of OpenOffice. > > An overview of release issues can be found under: > > http://people.apache.org/~jsc/developer-snapshots/snapshot/AOO4.1.0_Beta_fixes.html > > The release candidate artifacts (1) (source release, as well as binary > releases for 37 languages) and further information how to verify and > review Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 Beta can be found on the following wiki page: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds > > The RC is based on the release branch AOO410, revision 1573601! And a > fresh and clean RAT scan output of this revision can be found under > > http://people.apache.org/~jsc/developer-snapshots/snapshot/AOO4.1.0_RAT_Scan.html > > Please vote on releasing this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 Beta > > The vote starts now and will be open until: > > Sunday evening, 9 March: 2014-03-09 11:00pm 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 4.1.0 Beta > [ ] 0 Don't care > [ ] -1 Do not release this package because... > > +1, I built from scratch from the src release, reviewed the rat scan results and played around with the Mac version.
Juergen > > > (1) the upload for the Linux 32 bit artifacts is still ongoing, but 64 > bit is already available. > >
