On Apr 22, 2012, at 12:19 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Jürgen Schmidt > <jogischm...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> this is a call for vote on releasing the following candidate as Apache >> OpenOffice 3.4 (incubating). This will be the first incubator release for >> Apache OpenOffice and a key milestone to continue the success of >> OpenOffice.org. >> >> >> This release candidate provides the following important key changes compared >> to former OpenOffice releases: >> (1) Code clean up to remove all copyleft components and external >> dependencies >> (2) Reworked or introduced LICENSE and NOTICE file to reflect and document >> the used licenses of the code itself as well as of external 3rd party >> libraries >> (3) MD5, SHA1, SHA512 hashes and GPG signatures for all of artifacts >> >> For a detailed feature overview please see the release notes under >> https://cwiki.apache.org/OOOUSERS/aoo-34-release-notes.html. >> >> The release candidate artifacts (source release, as well as binary releases >> for 16 languages) and further information how to verify and review Apache >> OpenOffice 3.4 (incubating) can be found on the following wiki page: >> >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+3.4+%28incubating%29+Release+Candidate >> >> >> Please vote on releasing this package as Apache OpenOffice 3.4 (incubating). >> >> The vote starts now and will be open until: >> >> UTC midnight Wednesday, 25 April: 2012-04-25 24:00 UTC. >> >> After the vote of the PPMC the vote will start on >> gene...@incubtor.apache.org mailing and will be open for further 72 hours. >> But we invite all people to vote (non binding) on this RC. We would like to >> provide a release that is supported by the majority of our project members. >> > > I downloaded the Windows/English binaries and installed in three scenarios: > > 1) New Windows XP/SP3 system that never had OOo on it. > > 2) XP/SP3 system that had OOo 3.3.0 already installed on it > > 3) XP/SP3 system that had LO 3.5.1 already installed on it. > > These scenarios all worked fine, installing cleanly. > > I've also been running the dev packs in my daily work for over a month > now. My experience is that it is very stable. > > At the ODF Plugfest in Brussels last week I used AOO 3.4 in my interop > testing. We did well. We should be proud of what we've > accomplished.
Excellent! When you have a moment a summary email and/or blog post would be wonderful. Regards, Dave > > +1 (PPMC) > >> [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 3.4 (incubating) >> [ ] 0 Don't care >> [ ] -1 Do not release this package because... >>
