Hello, I consider my proposal, by way of "lazy consensus" to have formally failed because "Bidouille" has objected.
Now I wanted to put my proposal new for decision, but Peter's proposal (and also already finished draft text) I like better. Therefore I would like to propose: ---------------------------------- 1. we still make corrections (if necessary) to Peter's text [1] and then publish it as a blog post in https://blogs.apache.org 2. we link 1. in https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/announcing-apache-openoffice-4-14 and in https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1.8+Release+Notes 3. release as far as possible in the current year, in any case as soon as possible Please mark your opinion with +1/0/-1. greetings, Jörg [1] "Dear OpenOffice Users Thank you for taking interest into OpenOffice and your ongoing support over the years. As of late as you have heared through various channels, an Issue has popped up on Big Sur. The issue affects on opening modern Microsoft Office Document formats (files that end on docx, xlsx, etc.), which causes openoffice to crash on Mac OSX Big Sur. Affected, as far as we know, are all OpenOffice versions. There is no workaround within OpenOffice at this point, and we will address this issue in a new patch 4.1.9, which will be released to all platforms, despite the main reason is the Issue on Mac. We will see to it that we include some other minor development to the patch, so everyone has something from this unfortunate incident. But we know that this is a pressing issue to our users, So expect the patch soon. In Order to identify the issue we had first a closer look at our build in order to exclude any Issues with a wrong release. Next we updated the build to a newer SDK Issue to exclude an Issue in our support structures. After this we figured that our non production ready but upcoming Version 4.2.0 is not affected by this Issue. In an effort over Christmas a comparison took place between the 4.2.0 and 4.1.8 Versions to loacate potential Issues. It seems we have found the code change that is solving the crash on Mac. However we are testing the Solution at this point. If you want to join the test riage of this fix, drop a mail in English to dev@openoffice.apache.org. The more environments we can test the better we can react on Issues. The Project thanks Jim Jagelski for his endless effort during Christmas time, and the French Forum users [...] who did support the development by their dedicated testing efforts. All the best and stay healthy" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
