On 4/17/14 9:50 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 09:40:25 +0200 > Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Juergen Schmidt wrote: >>> Am Donnerstag, 17. April 2014 um 01:04 schrieb Andrea Pescetti: >>>> It seems rather serious. I expect that "ordinary" private users are >>>> not affected so much, but corporate or institutional users may be. >>> this is very speculative and I am not aware of any reported problem >>> until now. >> >> Indeed this is just my expectation. I would like to ask the mailing >> lists for some dedicated testing and evaluation, as I wrote. But I can't >> even give users the link since our CI server is broken and nobody can >> download RC3 at the moment. >> >> I described the four "lost features" from Mozilla we identified so far >> (this one and the three from the release notes) and asked on the mailing >> lists in Italian if somebody is using them. >> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-utenti-it/201404.mbox/%3C534F8104.20408%40apache.org%3E >> >> (why the Italian lists? because digital signatures in OpenOffice are a >> topic that I've seen discussed there over the years) Does it make sense >> to send a warning to the international users list too? >> >>> Do we really want stop the current 4.1 release that is probably good >>> for > 95% of our users? >> >> We are estimating with no knowledge. A quick e-mail discussion on the >> users list would give us better information on whether we are dropping >> something critical for users or not. Then I perfectly understand that we >> have to deliver 4.1.0 in a reasonable timeframe and that we have no >> immediate solution for this removed feature. >> >> Ideally, we should at least conclude that: >> >> 1) the Windows version is completely unaffected (best way: ask people >> who rely on these features to test with the Beta or RC3) >> >> 2) the feature is not seen as critical in other environments (it isn't >> for me, it isn't for you; but we may be missing some important use cases). >> >>> I would go for the release, fix it and release a 4.1.1 when a fix is >>> available. >> >> If we are committed to fix it in 4.1.1 this is important to say too. >> >> Regards, >> Andrea. > > Another possibility: I am not au fait with Digital Signatures so may be > utterly off target > > Would it be possible to (quickly) develop an extension that provided the > Digital Signature functionality? Then release of OO 4.1 could continue as > planned, with the Digital Signature functionality available by such an add-on? >
probably not easy ;-) We should discuss the this feature in a separate thread because I see many open question about it in general... But the good news is that it still works on Windows and I am very confident that it works completely. Juergen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
