On 24/10/2011 Rob Weir wrote:
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
<orwittm...@googlemail.com>  wrote:
- "IP cleared" milestone ...
This milestone would result in an OpenOffice.org missing a lot of important
features, but this milestone would be the basis regarding Apache's IP rules.
This milestone could be released according to the Apache rules.

"Could" be released.  We can debate whether we would actually release
this.

Right, if the first Apache release is missing important features that used to be in OpenOffice.org 3.3 then it could be detrimental to the project.

OpenOffice.org users are waiting for updates, and whatever you explain, they will download and install the first Apache version and judge from what they see. Ideally, they should be given a bugfixed 3.4-beta under LGPL3 that would show the nice improvements done after OOo 3.3, but we have already discussed this in other threads. If, on the contrary, the first release is missing important functionality, it could easily backfire and it's better not to expose users to it.

Regards,
  Andrea.

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