Hi Larry, Drechsel, *;

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Larry Gusaas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/

The URL changed, that is right, but the following might be a little
misleading, so I'd like to add/clarify on that:

> There is an official release in US English and a few other languages at
> http://download.openoffice.org/other.html

All the official PPC releases come from ooopackges.good-day.net (Maho
prepares them and uploads them to the good-day.net server)

A release will be released as "official release" once a corresponding
QA-Team did approve it. (native-language projects run the tests and
then approve it (or not if there are serious problems with the build).
When it is approved, the RC (release candidate) from good-day.net is
simply renamed and pushed to the main mirror network.
(This process is the same for other builds as well, the RC that is
approved is renamed and then put on the main mirror network) The thing
with PPC is just that other builds are provided by Sun/Oracle and they
do QA for en-US, thus en-US version for other operating systems is
immediately released/available, while the other languages have to be
approved by the corresponding native-lang teams first (that sometimes
leads to delays for some languages/operating systems. Especially Mac
for PPC version lacks testers/feedback, so Mac/PPC version is always
amongst the last to be approved/amongst those who will always stick
with RC status just because nobody did test and approve that specific
version)

ciao
Christian

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