On Saturday, 31. March 2012 at 17:14, Rob Weir wrote: > Try to imagine yourself in the IPMC, being asked to vote for the release of > AOO 3.4. You want to make sure the release follows Apache policies and > guidelines. You want to protect the ASF. You want to ensure that users, > including developers using our source code packages, get the greatest > benefit from the release. But you are faced with a 10 million line code > project, larger and more complex than anything you've faced before at > Apache. > > What do you do? Where do you start? > > Honestly, I have absolutely no idea. It is daunting task. But I think it > is in our best interest as a PPMC to make our AOO 3.4 Release Candidate > easy to review for the IPMC. This means understanding the common questions > and concerns they might have and preparing answers to these in advance. > > I've drafted an outline, and filled in some of the blanks, for a "Summary > of Apache OpenOffice 3.4 IP Review" document on the wiki. I think this will > help raise the IPMC comfort level by documenting in one place the due > diligence we performed and the final results. It also highlights the > unusual things that came up in this project, such as the "mere aggregation" > inclusion of dictionaries in the binary packages. > > Here it is: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Summary+of+Apache+OpenOffice+3.4+IP+Review+Activities > > Any help in filling in the blanks would be much appreciated, by me (of > course), but hopefully also by the IPMC. If we should cover other topics, > add those as well. > >
You have probably missed this https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+3.4+Release+FAQ We have started a similar page and I would suggest that we consolidate these 2 pages immediately to avoid duplicated work and confusion. Juergen > > Regards, > > -Rob
