Please put Peter’s text in a cwiki page so that it can be edited. We cannot promise a release by the end of the year. We should not imply that macOS Big Sur is the only reason for 4.1.9. All platforms will benefit.
Thanks for your efforts. +1 once the text is properly edited. Regards, Dave Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 27, 2020, at 8:34 AM, Jörg Schmidt <joe...@j-m-schmidt.de> wrote: > > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
