Responses to the dev mailing list only, please, so we can avoid fragmenting the discussion.
Regards, -Rob 133 responses "Where did you first hear about the Apache OpenOffice Beta?" OpenOffice announcement mailing list 44.36% OpenOffice development mailing list 6.77% OpenOffice users mailing list 11.28% OpenOffice Community Forum 0.75% OpenOffice website 9.02% OpenOffice Project Blog 2.26% Facebook 3.01% Twitter 1.50% Google+ 6.02% News article 3.01% Other 6.77% No answer 5.26% [Rob: Did we not mention the Beta on the Forum? Other: mentioned web searches and coverage on other mailing lists, e.g., an NVDA mailing list.] What is your relationship to the Apache OpenOffice project? User 81.95% Project volunteer 6.02% Other 2.26% No answer 9.77% [Rob: Good, we're getting users not just the same people who already tried the RC] Why did you decide to download and install the Apache OpenOffice 4.1 Beta? I wanted to test my extension, workflow or other system to make sure it worked with 4.1 5.26% I was curious to see what was coming in the next release of OpenOffice. 63.91% I hoped that Beta would fix a problem I was having with an earlier version of OpenOffice. 18.05% I wanted to help test OpenOffice project by offering my early feedback 23.31% I wanted to help improve the quality of OpenOffice by looking for bugs in the Beta 23.31% Other 6.77% [Rob: Half of "other" mentioned specific interest testing accessibility.] What language version(s) of the Apache OpenOffice 4.1 Beta did you use? Dutch (nl) 2.26% Danish (da) 1.50% German (de) 6.02% Polish (pl) 2.26% English, British (en-GB) 27.07% English, American (en-US) 50.38% Spanish (es) 6.02% Basque (eu) 0.75% French (fr) 4.51% Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR) 4.51% Italian (it) 0.75% Tamil (ta) 1 0.75% Chinese, traditional (zh-TW) 0.75% [Rob: Room for improvement here. We lacked beta downloads for many of of languages, including new translations like Hindi and Bulgarian. Maybe next time we should link about how we can work with translators to find ways of getting native language groups to know about the new translation. The new translations are the ones that would benefit most from beta feedback, right?] Did you install an additional Language Pack for use with the Apache OpenOffice 4.1 Beta? Yes 10.53% No 77.44% No answer 12.03% What Language Pack(s) did you install with the Apache OpenOffice 4.1 Beta? Bulgarian (bg) 7.69% Greek (el) 7.69% Portuguese (pt) 15.38% English, British (en-GB) 15.38% English, American (en-US) 7.69% Spanish (es) 7.69% French (fr) 23.08% Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR) 15.38% Italian (it) 7.69% Tamil (ta) 7.69% What platform version of OpenOffice 4.1 Beta did you use? Windows 72.18% Mac OS 13.53% Linux-32 4.51% Linux-64 14.29% What version(s) of Windows did you use? Windows XP 15.62% Windows Vista 6.25% Windows 7 71.88% Windows 8 5.21% Windows 8.1 16.67% What version(s) of Mac OS did you use? 10.5 0.00% 10.6 0.00% 10.7 11.11% 10.8 0.00% 10.9 0.00% 10.9.1 0.00% 10.9.2 88.89% What distro/version of Linux did you use? (free text field) 10 Ubuntu's 1 XUbuntu 1 Kubuntu 2 OpenSuse 1 PCLinuxOS 2 Mint 1 Fedora 2 Debian Did you install and use any Extensions with Apache OpenOffice 4.1 Beta? Yes 16.54% No 66.92% No answer 16.54% What Extensions did you use? [ Rob: 22 Responses. Before giving the list I'll mention 2 responses noted problems: 1) Presentation Minimize not working (not details) 2) Presenter Console 1.1.0, PDF Import 1.0.4 won't install 3) User needed to install Pt dictionary since it was missing in the install set and Langpack (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124423)] presentation minimizer. Google Oracle Presenter Console 1.1.0, PDF Import 1.0.4 English (Canadian) Dictionary and spelling (italian, spanish, french and English), epub binder, perfectepub and write2epub,pdfimport, pagination, Mysql connector. Templates Crop - Epubgenerator - Diccionarios - Alba dictionary own CropOoo ClipArt by open-office.es PDF import for Apache OpenOffice Basic IDE Tools ooEs Palette WriterRotationTool LanguageTool SmART Extension PhotoAlbum ES Portuguese dictionary various dictionaries English spelling and hyphenations dictionaries and thesaurus OOOP-accessories-2.8.0.0.oxt Sun Report Spellchecker Anaphraseus, Magenta Chemistry, OpenCards 1.5.1, PDF Import, PicoSvoxOOo, SuperbChemistry. SpellChecker Epub Writer PDF import Code 128 Barcodes For OpenOffice Calc vero How many hours did you spend using/testing the OpenOffice 4.1 Beta? 117 responses. Total time 1463 hours (or 61 days) of additional test effort. Average use time 12.5 hours. Which OpenOffice applications did you use from the Beta? Writer 87.22% Calc 57.14% Impress 27.07% Draw 19.55% Base 16.54% [Rob: Glad to see that Base got some attention.] Which of the following new features did you try? 64-bit Mac support 7.52% Integrated iAccessible2 4.51% Annotations of text ranges in Writer. 24.81% In-place editing of text fields in Writer 31.58% Interactive image crop feature for Impress and Draw 15.79% Enhanced support for 3D charts 12.03% Did you encounter any serious problems in your use of Apache OpenOffice 4.1 that you did not already report to us via Bugzilla or our mailing lists? Yes 11.28% No 73.68% No answer 15.04% Please describe the issue(s) you encountered. 1. [Mac OS 10.9.2 user] When I open old openoffice docs, it tells me that all fields cannot be opened, but it looks fine when it's opened. Also, when I save a doc, it tells me that there is an error, that it didn't save it when in fact it really did save it. 2. Cant install on Ubuntu, No deb file, No PPA, Just one install file 3. [Windws 8.1 user] After installing and using, the program will not open again. The computer must be rebooted to get the Open Office Beta to restart. This event has occurred several times. 4 [Windows 7 user]. A. In OO Calc all Formulas already set will change to REF, when any of the linked file is causing problem. B. Sometimes it showing like macros are disabled, when opening any Calc file. And we cannot remove that also. C. We cannot set date format like dd/mm/yyyy D. It's too slow when opening OO calc containing more than 20 sheets. E. After we open any excel file containing page break, then any other file will open after restarting the system. 5 [Linux Mint user] OpenOffice Base Create a simple query Define the order of fields Save the query Open in design mode the query Order are lost!!! Open in SQL view the query Order is correct!!! 6. [Windows XP user] desktop icon did not work did not pickup all personal settings backup path load save options tab stops setting default basic font footnote setting in default page in writer 7. A. NVDA is unable to report justification (left, right, centered, etc) information when using its shortcut key NVDA+F for formatting summary. Other font info, such as attributes and font, is reported. B. with NVDA, after making changes to text attributes via the context menu in a Writer document, I am unable to move the cursor with ctrl+left/right arrows until I clear the selection by pressing down arrow. 8. [Ubuntu 13.10 user] Crashes on start. 9. Invisible scrollbars 10. [Windows 8.1 user] Worked well, and then suddenly stopped functioning entirely. Can no longer open OpenOffice 4.1 11. [Windows 7 user] The first time I used it the program just stopped after 30 minutes 11. AOO Beta seems not to work well with screen reader in dialog boxes in Calc and Writer. Screen reader is NVDA. 12. [OpenSuse user] No desktop integration, but that might be normal in a beta release --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
