There is nothing to prevent us from going through the ASF release process and then calling the approved release "Apache OpenOffice 3.4 RC1" although as far as ASF is concerned, it is evidently a release, it is preserved as a release, the source tarball is captured for the release, etc., etc.
So the question would then be, why would this not be "Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0"? That is how the r1325589/RC1 downloads are identified. (It looks like the three packagings of source tarballs should have had the same identifier, rather than just a00-3.4-incubating-src.*). I don't believe the Apache release candidates go anywhere but where they are. Once they achieve release status, the dam bursts. But, in Apache terms, they are no longer candidates. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Kay Schenk [mailto:kay.sch...@gmail.com] <http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-dev/201204.mbox/%3c4f8c9a8b.6080...@gmail.com%3e> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 15:10 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Expanding Review and Contributions as AOO 3.4 Approaches On 04/16/2012 02:21 PM, drew wrote: <http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-dev/201204.mbox/%3c1334611284.19386.7.camel@sybil-gnome%3e> [ ... ] > Will the RC files go to the mirrors, yes, but there is considerable discussion at the moment over WHICH mirror system -- Apache, MirroBrain, or Sourceforge. You may want to check out the rather lengthy discussion that started here: http://markmail.org/thread/zfdsn2bbkikirdjg and which I posted an additional response with a different subject at: http://markmail.org/message/igjzrxtdecuug4ib BTW, and I suppose in the same > question - will the download pages on the main ooo site be used for RC > as in the past? This will be the starting point as in years past -- yes...we'll change the DL location parameters. The same information must be gathered from the requesting user. If so then that is the point at which we want to promote > the RC more broadly, so I would think. Stay tuned. :) My feeling is there are still some "bugs" vs "show stopper" issues that are being dealt with, and other formalities. And, there are setup issues relating to the mirror system which needs to be undertaken first. [ ... ]
