Re: Release communications -- plans

[Kay Schenk]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Rob Weir  wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Andrea Pescetti 
> wrote:
> > On 18/07/2013 Rob Weir wrote:
> >>
> >> The Release Notes are starting to look very nice.  It is worth
> >> reviewing if you have not looked recently:
> >>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes
> >
> >
> > Indeed, they are nice. The part introducing the Sidebar is very good too.
> >
> > Just a question: we will be promoting this Cwiki page, but:
> >
> > 1) I recall seeing that there was a "static" version available for each
> > page, which was the recommended one for publishing links (and had a URL
> > ending in .html). I can't see it now. What is the link we should publish?
> >
>
> The Press Release went out with a link to the CWiki version of the
> Release Notes (the only version we have).  The blog post links to that
> as well, though that can be changed if someone makes a static version.
>
>
The Release Notes on the wiki are really really super! Maybe the most
beautiful Release Notes I have ever seen! :)

 What I was planning to do -- as soon as additional editing on the release
note stabilize -- is:

1. make an HTML copy *only* as backup and port that to:

http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/4.0.0.html/

(so you will see this in the commit logs)

2. Set up a new link in:

  http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/index.html for 4.0.0

 but link it to the CWiki version.

Does that sound OK?



> > 2) May we get rid of the "Upgraded to 3.5.17. Upgrade to 5.1 delayed."
> > notice in the page header? We've probably get used to it (it's about the
> > Cwiki upgrade, nothing to do with OpenOffice) and we don't notice it any
> > longer since it has been there for weeks, but a lot of people are likely
> to
> > mistake it for a notice about the OpenOffice upgrades.
> >
>
> If you press the '[' key you can eliminate the navigator on the left,
> but I don't see a special URL for that.  It would be great if there
> was a special URL that would show only the page contents without the
> nav or header.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Rob
>
> > Regards,
> >   Andrea.
> >
> >
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Re: Release communications -- plans

[Marcus (OOo)]

Am 07/19/2013 11:04 AM, schrieb Ricardo Berlasso:

2013/7/18 Rob Weir


The Release Notes are starting to look very nice.  It is worth
reviewing if you have not looked recently:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes



I noticed that the "gatekeeper" notice is twice on the release notes and
with the same text, one under "known issues" and the other near the end,
under upgrading/installation, is that intended? Maybe the second one should
be shorter, pointing to the "known issues"?

BTW, ES translation is ready.


It looks really a bit too much duplicate.

@Kay:
AFAIK you have created the additional part. What do you think, can you 
shorten it with a reference to the known issue?


Marcus




This is the primary statement of what is in the release.  The
introductory sections are general enough that this page can be used as
a self-contained announcement message. It doesn't require additional
context.

However, we will have additional announcement statements.

1) There will be a press release.  This repeats a subset of the
contents of the release nots, but it the format and style that is
expected in a press release.  Don Harbison took the lead on drafting
that.

2) We should also have a brief blog post.  Maybe only a paragraph or
two and then a link to the Release Notes.  I don't want to spend too
much time on the blog post since I am almost certain the blog will
crash under load.  For that reason I'd recommend that we don't promote
the blog page via social media, etc.,   Promote the Release Notes
instead.

In the past we've translated the blog post.  But in this case I'd
recommend we focus on translating the Release Notes.

3) A brief announcement to our mailing lists, including the 9000
subscribers of our announcement mailing list.  Again, linking back to
the Release Notes.

4) Posts to Twitter, Google+, Facebook, etc.  This is something where
everyone can help spread the news, by sharing, +1'ing,  RT'ing,. etc.

Regards,

-Rob


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release media files

[Drew Jensen]

Howdy Folks,

Long time no speak - I noticed the pedning the 4.0 release, read an email
the other day regarding the use, or not so much, of the blog for an
announcemtn and more social media. Thought perhaps you would like a short
'release announcement' type video perhaps.

I took the liberty of spinning up a very brief such item, which you can
find here:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bx7ZNEXlmR0IUTY1YzFhR1VLQU0/edit?usp=sharing
[unzip the a4.mp4 video file from the uploaded zip container]

This is just 13 seconds, very low key, I think classy however (course' I'm
bias), I had in mind an audiance of those already using the suite and just
waiting for the release - so useful maybe on FB or G+, but if it suits
anyone please feel free to use it in any fashion you see fit.

Now - one item, I have not been on-line much for many months (only 1 a week
for a few hours on average) and have not kept up with the goings on, so,
was not able to quickly find a vector graphic of what I take if the new
logo, only - I did what I could using the PNG image I found on the wiki,
but I'm sure there is a better image available.

So, if anyone knows where a vector image for that logo can be found I
appreciate it if you could ping back to this mail on the list with the URL.

I would also like to offer, and have started, a second video. Longer, 45 -
90 sec. range, with a quick summary of new features. A little different
audiance from the shorty here, I suppose. To start that I've downloaded all
the information from the release notes page on the wiki, have used this to
generate some raw screen video catpure for the GUI changes and will use,
with your permission If I may, the graphics from the wiki for some of the
file fidelity enhancements.

On this second piece, the problem is likely of what *not* to include, if I
want to hit the length mark above - that certainly would benefit from
collaboration on the list here. Also, because I've not been following along
the list on a reagular basis I'm not sure if anyone is dong somthing like
that already, if so I would offer to help - otherwise, I planned on putting
a first cut together over the weekedn and would make a copy to the list for
merciless review (the best kind of course). If anyone wants to post on the
list to the email with a script though - it wouldn't hurt at all ;)

Thanks for all your had work, it shows in the product.

//drew

Re: [RESULT][VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC2)

[Andrea Pescetti]

Dave Fisher wrote:

On Jul 19, 2013, at 9:09 AM, janI wrote:

It is in principle no good, that a single person decides if a vote is valid
or not, it sort of invalidates the idea of voting.

imacat's VOTE was not a Veto as you cannot veto a release.


Enough misunderstandings here (I think that Jan was saying: Juergen 
cannot decide by himself whether a -1 is valid...).


Anyway, let's update the tally to 24 "+1" votes (14 binding) and 1 "-1" 
vote (imacat, binding) and move on.


As Juergen already wrote, we remain committed to make the traditional 
Chinese version available at the earliest occasion, it is already at 
100% but it simply came too late to build/include it. In the meantime, 
it will be available as snapshot build.


Regards,
  Andrea.

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Re: [RELEASE]: availability of uploads and synchronize SF mirrors

[Marcus (OOo)]

Am 07/19/2013 05:16 PM, schrieb Jürgen Schmidt:

The vote closed successful and I have once again uploaded the files in
the dist are on the people server.

/www/www.apache.org/dist/openoffice/4.0.0

The relevant files for SF are under
/www/www.apache.org/dist/extgernaldist/openoffice/4.0.0


@Roberto:
I have created a "4.0.0" staged directory (with sub-dirs and files) in:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/

If this interfere with the new upload just delete them. I don't want to 
do this. Maybe I would delete a running rsync by acccident. ;-)


Marcus




I hope the rsync url works now, if not please contact the infra people
directly.

rsync Url: rsync.apache.org::apache-dist-external


A complete file list can you find here
http://people.apache.org/~jsc/aoo4.0_files_dist-openoffice-4.0.0.txt
http://people.apache.org/~jsc/aoo4.0_files_dist-externaldist-openoffice-4.0.0.txt

As I mentioned earlier I will be not available until next week Thursday.
But I hope I can follow the release a little bit to have some fun with
you all together ;-)

Juergen


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Re: Release communications -- plans

[Juergen Schmidt]

Am Freitag, 19. Juli 2013 um 22:17 schrieb Hagar Delest:
> It has been reported several times already but since you link the landing 
> page of the forum we need to remove the incubating logo top right of that 
> page.
>  
> imacat has not been seen on the forum for a long time, any volunteer to be 
> admin?
> NB: this is not criticism, we all have our own agenda. But there are several 
> items that have not evolved since Nov. 2011.
>  
>  


well after my vacation you can count me in, I am interested to help but gave to 
learn more about the used software...

Juergen  
>  
> Hagar
>  
>  
> Le 19/07/2013 08:03, Andrea Pescetti a écrit :
>  
> > On 18/07/2013 Rob Weir wrote:
> > > The Release Notes are starting to look very nice. It is worth
> > > reviewing if you have not looked recently:
> > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes
> > >  
> >  
> >  
> > Indeed, they are nice. The part introducing the Sidebar is very good too.
> >  
> > Just a question: we will be promoting this Cwiki page, but:
> >  
> > 1) I recall seeing that there was a "static" version available for each 
> > page, which was the recommended one for publishing links (and had a URL 
> > ending in .html). I can't see it now. What is the link we should publish?
> >  
> > 2) May we get rid of the "Upgraded to 3.5.17. Upgrade to 5.1 delayed." 
> > notice in the page header? We've probably get used to it (it's about the 
> > Cwiki upgrade, nothing to do with OpenOffice) and we don't notice it any 
> > longer since it has been there for weeks, but a lot of people are likely to 
> > mistake it for a notice about the OpenOffice upgrades.
> >  
> > Regards,
> > Andrea.
> >  
> > -
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Re: [RESULT][VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC2)

[Juergen Schmidt]

Am Freitag, 19. Juli 2013 um 19:46 schrieb Andrea Pescetti:
> Dave Fisher wrote:
> > On Jul 19, 2013, at 9:09 AM, janI wrote:
> > > It is in principle no good, that a single person decides if a vote is 
> > > valid
> > > or not, it sort of invalidates the idea of voting.
> > > 
> > 
> > imacat's VOTE was not a Veto as you cannot veto a release.
> > 
> 
> 
> Enough misunderstandings here (I think that Jan was saying: Juergen 
> cannot decide by himself whether a -1 is valid...).
> 
> Anyway, let's update the tally to 24 "+1" votes (14 binding) and 1 "-1" 
> vote (imacat, binding) and move on.
> 
> As Juergen already wrote, we remain committed to make the traditional 
> Chinese version available at the earliest occasion, it is already at 
> 100% but it simply came too late to build/include it. In the meantime, 
> it will be available as snapshot build.
> 
> 

do whatever you want, from my point of view imacat voted on something that 
wasn't part of the vote. It remains an invalid vote for me.

Juergen
> 
> Regards,
> Andrea.
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Re: Release communications -- plans

[Hagar Delest]

Le 19/07/2013 16:56, Kay Schenk a écrit :

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Rob Weir  wrote:


On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Andrea Pescetti 
wrote:

On 18/07/2013 Rob Weir wrote:


The Release Notes are starting to look very nice.  It is worth
reviewing if you have not looked recently:


https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes



Indeed, they are nice. The part introducing the Sidebar is very good too.

Just a question: we will be promoting this Cwiki page, but:

1) I recall seeing that there was a "static" version available for each
page, which was the recommended one for publishing links (and had a URL
ending in .html). I can't see it now. What is the link we should publish?



The Press Release went out with a link to the CWiki version of the
Release Notes (the only version we have).  The blog post links to that
as well, though that can be changed if someone makes a static version.



The Release Notes on the wiki are really really super! Maybe the most
beautiful Release Notes I have ever seen! :)


+1.
Great release notes!

Hagar

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Re: Release communications -- plans

[Marcus (OOo)]

Am 07/19/2013 04:56 PM, schrieb Kay Schenk:

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Rob Weir  wrote:


On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Andrea Pescetti
wrote:

On 18/07/2013 Rob Weir wrote:


The Release Notes are starting to look very nice.  It is worth
reviewing if you have not looked recently:


https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes



Indeed, they are nice. The part introducing the Sidebar is very good too.

Just a question: we will be promoting this Cwiki page, but:

1) I recall seeing that there was a "static" version available for each
page, which was the recommended one for publishing links (and had a URL
ending in .html). I can't see it now. What is the link we should publish?



The Press Release went out with a link to the CWiki version of the
Release Notes (the only version we have).  The blog post links to that
as well, though that can be changed if someone makes a static version.



The Release Notes on the wiki are really really super! Maybe the most
beautiful Release Notes I have ever seen! :)


+1, really well done!


  What I was planning to do -- as soon as additional editing on the release
note stabilize -- is:

1. make an HTML copy *only* as backup and port that to:

http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/4.0.0.html/

(so you will see this in the commit logs)

2. Set up a new link in:

   http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/index.html for 4.0.0

  but link it to the CWiki version.

Does that sound OK?


Yes, if you need help just give me a note.

Marcus




2) May we get rid of the "Upgraded to 3.5.17. Upgrade to 5.1 delayed."
notice in the page header? We've probably get used to it (it's about the
Cwiki upgrade, nothing to do with OpenOffice) and we don't notice it any
longer since it has been there for weeks, but a lot of people are likely

to

mistake it for a notice about the OpenOffice upgrades.



If you press the '[' key you can eliminate the navigator on the left,
but I don't see a special URL for that.  It would be great if there
was a special URL that would show only the page contents without the
nav or header.

Regards,

-Rob


Regards,
   Andrea.


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Re: Release communications -- plans

[Kay Schenk]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Marcus (OOo)  wrote:

> Am 07/19/2013 04:56 PM, schrieb Kay Schenk:
>
>  On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Rob Weir  wrote:
>>
>>  On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Andrea Pescetti
>>> wrote:
>>>
 On 18/07/2013 Rob Weir wrote:

>
> The Release Notes are starting to look very nice.  It is worth
> reviewing if you have not looked recently:
>
>  https://cwiki.apache.org/**confluence/display/OOOUSERS/**
>>> AOO+4.0+Release+Notes
>>>


 Indeed, they are nice. The part introducing the Sidebar is very good
 too.

 Just a question: we will be promoting this Cwiki page, but:

 1) I recall seeing that there was a "static" version available for each
 page, which was the recommended one for publishing links (and had a URL
 ending in .html). I can't see it now. What is the link we should
 publish?


>>> The Press Release went out with a link to the CWiki version of the
>>> Release Notes (the only version we have).  The blog post links to that
>>> as well, though that can be changed if someone makes a static version.
>>>
>>>
>>>  The Release Notes on the wiki are really really super! Maybe the most
>> beautiful Release Notes I have ever seen! :)
>>
>
> +1, really well done!
>
>
>What I was planning to do -- as soon as additional editing on the
>> release
>> note stabilize -- is:
>>
>> 1. make an HTML copy *only* as backup and port that to:
>>
>> http://www.openoffice.org/**development/releases/4.0.0.**html/
>>
>> (so you will see this in the commit logs)
>>
>> 2. Set up a new link in:
>>
>>
>> http://www.openoffice.org/**development/releases/index.**htmlfor
>>  4.0.0
>>
>>   but link it to the CWiki version.
>>
>> Does that sound OK?
>>
>
> Yes, if you need help just give me a note.
>

Thanks. I've done this a few times so hopefully no glitches with this one.
The static HTML that gets rendered is exactly what is shown in:

https://cwiki.apache.org/OOOUSERS/aoo-40-release-notes.html

which I also did not know about.


>
> Marcus
>
>
>
>
>  2) May we get rid of the "Upgraded to 3.5.17. Upgrade to 5.1 delayed."
 notice in the page header? We've probably get used to it (it's about the
 Cwiki upgrade, nothing to do with OpenOffice) and we don't notice it any
 longer since it has been there for weeks, but a lot of people are likely

>>> to
>>>
 mistake it for a notice about the OpenOffice upgrades.


>>> If you press the '[' key you can eliminate the navigator on the left,
>>> but I don't see a special URL for that.  It would be great if there
>>> was a special URL that would show only the page contents without the
>>> nav or header.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> -Rob
>>>
>>>  Regards,
Andrea.

>>>
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Re: [PROPOSAL] End-of-Life for OpenOffice.org 3.3.0

[Marcus (OOo)]

Am 07/19/2013 02:20 PM, schrieb Rob Weir:

We currently have this link from the download page,from 2009,
announcing end-of-life for OpenOffice.org 2.x:

http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/eol.html

I'd like to update that page to also state that 3.x version prior to
3.4.x are also end-of-life.  Why?  We're unlikely to issue any more
security patches for 3.3.0 or earlier.

So the concrete proposal is:

1) Update the eol.html page to state that OOo 3.3.0 and earlier are no
longer supported.


IMHO it's worth it to keep the old content for reference. So, better to 
add a section for OOo 3.3.0 instead of overwriting the stuff.



2) Create a new landing page for users of OOo 3.3.0 and before who are
using a language version that we do not yet have a translation.
Explain in this page that the earlier versions are no longer
supported.  List what translations are currently available and where
they can be downloaded from.  Give information on how they can
volunteer to help translate AOO into their native language.

3) Configure the update notification server to OOo 3.3.0 users to this
new landing page, if their language is not already translated.  (Where
there is a translation we already point them to the download page)

4) Blog post/announcement on end-of-life for OOo 3.3.0 and earlier.

The end result is that:  1) We made it clear what versions are
supported.  2) We did our due diligence to reach out to users of older
versions.  3) We encourage new translation volunteers.

No rush on this.  It does not need to be done at the same time as the
4.0 announcement.  It can follow a week or so later.


+1

Marcus

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Re: Release communications -- plans

[Marcus (OOo)]

Am 07/19/2013 01:51 PM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti:

Marcus (OOo) wrote:

Am 07/19/2013 08:03 AM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti:

1) I recall seeing that there was a "static" version available for each
page, which was the recommended one for publishing links (and had a URL
ending in .html). I can't see it now. What is the link we should
publish?

http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/4.0.0.html


Sorry, I meant the static version of the cwiki page. The cwiki pages


OK, I didn't know about that.


exist in two versions, the "live" one and a static one that is
automatically generated (and, possibly, handles the traffic better?). In
the meantime I found it: the static version of
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes
is
https://cwiki.apache.org/OOOUSERS/aoo-40-release-notes.html
but the former actually looks nicer...


Interesting :-)


As for the www.openoffice.org page, if I get it right we won't be
copying the release notes to the website right now: we will use the
cwiki version at release time.


2) May we get rid of the "Upgraded to 3.5.17. Upgrade to 5.1 delayed."
notice in the page header? ...

Does someone from our project has inserted the hint? I thought it was an
Infra topic.


Yes, this was added by Infra when they upgraded Cwiki. The static
version does not display it.


Then we have our link. :-)

Marcus

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Re: Release communications -- plans

[Hagar Delest]

It has been reported several times already but since you link the landing page 
of the forum we need to remove the incubating logo top right of that page.

imacat has not been seen on the forum for a long time, any volunteer to be 
admin?
NB: this is not criticism, we all have our own agenda. But there are several 
items that have not evolved since Nov. 2011.

Hagar


Le 19/07/2013 08:03, Andrea Pescetti a écrit :


On 18/07/2013 Rob Weir wrote:

The Release Notes are starting to look very nice.  It is worth
reviewing if you have not looked recently:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes


Indeed, they are nice. The part introducing the Sidebar is very good too.

Just a question: we will be promoting this Cwiki page, but:

1) I recall seeing that there was a "static" version available for each page, 
which was the recommended one for publishing links (and had a URL ending in .html). I 
can't see it now. What is the link we should publish?

2) May we get rid of the "Upgraded to 3.5.17. Upgrade to 5.1 delayed." notice 
in the page header? We've probably get used to it (it's about the Cwiki upgrade, nothing 
to do with OpenOffice) and we don't notice it any longer since it has been there for 
weeks, but a lot of people are likely to mistake it for a notice about the OpenOffice 
upgrades.

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   Andrea.

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Re: New Extensions website goes live!

[Ariel Constenla-Haile]

On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 12:01:12PM -0300, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote:
> The download buttons for externally hosted extensions (or at least for
> this one:
> http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/mysql-driver-apache-openoffice)
> give an "Access denied" error page.

Confirmed also with
http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/eurooffice-nonlinear-solver

-- 
Ariel Constenla-Haile
La Plata, Argentina


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Re: Release communications -- plans

[Emanuele]

Rob Weir wrote:
> The Release Notes are starting to look very nice.  It is worth
> reviewing if you have not looked recently:
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes
>

Just a small typo I suppose:

http://wiki.openoffice.org/w/images/c/ce/120017_MS.jpg
http://wiki.openoffice.org/w/images/d/da/120017_AOO341.jpg
http://wiki.openoffice.org/w/images/f/f0/120017_AOO40.jpg

;)

Also maybe something like:
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/3027/gebv.png
or
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/396/djx.png
instead of
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/30746475/NewPalette.png?version=1&modificationDate=1373893875128

And the same for
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/30746475/NewGradients.png?version=1&modificationDate=1373893817690

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Re: Release communications -- plans

[Rony G. Flatscher]

On 19.07.2013 16:56, Kay Schenk wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Rob Weir  wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Andrea Pescetti 
>> wrote:
>>> On 18/07/2013 Rob Weir wrote:
 The Release Notes are starting to look very nice.  It is worth
 reviewing if you have not looked recently:

>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes
>>>
>>> Indeed, they are nice. The part introducing the Sidebar is very good too.
>>>
>>> Just a question: we will be promoting this Cwiki page, but:
>>>
>>> 1) I recall seeing that there was a "static" version available for each
>>> page, which was the recommended one for publishing links (and had a URL
>>> ending in .html). I can't see it now. What is the link we should publish?
>>>
>> The Press Release went out with a link to the CWiki version of the
>> Release Notes (the only version we have).  The blog post links to that
>> as well, though that can be changed if someone makes a static version.
>>
>>
> The Release Notes on the wiki are really really super! Maybe the most
> beautiful Release Notes I have ever seen! :)
Yes, that is just a great compilation and presentation, which will make it easy 
for everyone to
comprehend (and appreciate) quickly what AOO 4.0 brings about.

Very well done !

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Re: [RESULT][VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC2)

[Dave Fisher]

On Jul 19, 2013, at 9:09 AM, janI wrote:

> On 19 July 2013 17:11, Jürgen Schmidt  wrote:
> 
>> On 7/19/13 5:07 PM, Donald Whytock wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Jürgen Schmidt >> wrote:
>>> 
 The vote period to release the RC2 (based on release branch AOO40,
 revision 1503704) as Apache OpenOffice 4.0 has ended.
 
 The ballot result in 24 votes, 24 +1 votes including 14 binding PMC
 member votes.
 
 3 binding +1 votes are necessary for the release. That means the ballot
 closed successful to release the RC2 as AOO 4.0
 
 Vote tally
 
 +1 Jan Iversen (binding)
 +1 Keith McKenna
 +1 Olaf Felka
 +1 Sylvain Denis
 +1 Marco A.G. Pinto
 +1 V Stuart Foote
 +1 Samer Mansour
 +1 Ricardo Berlasso (binding)
 +1 Rory O'Farrell
 +1 Rob Weir (binding)
 +1 Shengfeng Liu
 +1 Kay Schenk (binding)
 +1 Marcus Lange (binding)
 +1 Regina Henschel (binding)
 +1 Andrew Rist (binding)
 +1 Donald Harbison (binding)
 +1 Xuacu
 +1 Juergen Schmidt (binding)
 +1 Yuzhen Fan
 +1 Andrea Pescetti (binding)
 +1 Armin Le Grand (binding)
 +1 Herbert Duerr (binding)
 +1 Kazunari Hirano (binding)
 +1 Andre Fischer (binding)
 
 Thanks
 
 Juergen
 
 
>>> Imacat voted -1.  Is he non-binding?
>>> 
>> 
>> the vote was not valid from my perspective because she voted on
>> something that was part of the vote. I haven't count it but of course it
>> would not change the result. And I believe imacat made it clear in a
>> later response.
>> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> I know it does not change anything, but imacat did not withdraw her -1, so
> it should be in the tally for the record. The vote is binding and should be
> counted.
> 
> It is in principle no good, that a single person decides if a vote is valid
> or not, it sort of invalidates the idea of voting.

imacat's VOTE was not a Veto as you cannot veto a release. Since it was not a 
VETO situation there is no invalidation.

Please count her VOTE as (binding)

In a sense this is different from Rapheal's -1 which was agreed by acclamation 
once the flaw was obvious.

Thank you.

> 
> rgds
> jan I.
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> Juergen
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Re: [RESULT][VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC2)

[janI]

On 19 July 2013 17:11, Jürgen Schmidt  wrote:

> On 7/19/13 5:07 PM, Donald Whytock wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Jürgen Schmidt  >wrote:
> >
> >> The vote period to release the RC2 (based on release branch AOO40,
> >> revision 1503704) as Apache OpenOffice 4.0 has ended.
> >>
> >> The ballot result in 24 votes, 24 +1 votes including 14 binding PMC
> >> member votes.
> >>
> >> 3 binding +1 votes are necessary for the release. That means the ballot
> >> closed successful to release the RC2 as AOO 4.0
> >>
> >> Vote tally
> >>
> >> +1 Jan Iversen (binding)
> >> +1 Keith McKenna
> >> +1 Olaf Felka
> >> +1 Sylvain Denis
> >> +1 Marco A.G. Pinto
> >> +1 V Stuart Foote
> >> +1 Samer Mansour
> >> +1 Ricardo Berlasso (binding)
> >> +1 Rory O'Farrell
> >> +1 Rob Weir (binding)
> >> +1 Shengfeng Liu
> >> +1 Kay Schenk (binding)
> >> +1 Marcus Lange (binding)
> >> +1 Regina Henschel (binding)
> >> +1 Andrew Rist (binding)
> >> +1 Donald Harbison (binding)
> >> +1 Xuacu
> >> +1 Juergen Schmidt (binding)
> >> +1 Yuzhen Fan
> >> +1 Andrea Pescetti (binding)
> >> +1 Armin Le Grand (binding)
> >> +1 Herbert Duerr (binding)
> >> +1 Kazunari Hirano (binding)
> >> +1 Andre Fischer (binding)
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Juergen
> >>
> >>
> > Imacat voted -1.  Is he non-binding?
> >
>
> the vote was not valid from my perspective because she voted on
> something that was part of the vote. I haven't count it but of course it
> would not change the result. And I believe imacat made it clear in a
> later response.
>

Hi

I know it does not change anything, but imacat did not withdraw her -1, so
it should be in the tally for the record. The vote is binding and should be
counted.

It is in principle no good, that a single person decides if a vote is valid
or not, it sort of invalidates the idea of voting.

rgds
jan I.



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Re: [RESULT][VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC2)

[Jürgen Schmidt]

On 7/19/13 5:07 PM, Donald Whytock wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> The vote period to release the RC2 (based on release branch AOO40,
>> revision 1503704) as Apache OpenOffice 4.0 has ended.
>>
>> The ballot result in 24 votes, 24 +1 votes including 14 binding PMC
>> member votes.
>>
>> 3 binding +1 votes are necessary for the release. That means the ballot
>> closed successful to release the RC2 as AOO 4.0
>>
>> Vote tally
>>
>> +1 Jan Iversen (binding)
>> +1 Keith McKenna
>> +1 Olaf Felka
>> +1 Sylvain Denis
>> +1 Marco A.G. Pinto
>> +1 V Stuart Foote
>> +1 Samer Mansour
>> +1 Ricardo Berlasso (binding)
>> +1 Rory O'Farrell
>> +1 Rob Weir (binding)
>> +1 Shengfeng Liu
>> +1 Kay Schenk (binding)
>> +1 Marcus Lange (binding)
>> +1 Regina Henschel (binding)
>> +1 Andrew Rist (binding)
>> +1 Donald Harbison (binding)
>> +1 Xuacu
>> +1 Juergen Schmidt (binding)
>> +1 Yuzhen Fan
>> +1 Andrea Pescetti (binding)
>> +1 Armin Le Grand (binding)
>> +1 Herbert Duerr (binding)
>> +1 Kazunari Hirano (binding)
>> +1 Andre Fischer (binding)
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Juergen
>>
>>
> Imacat voted -1.  Is he non-binding?
> 

the vote was not valid from my perspective because she voted on
something that was part of the vote. I haven't count it but of course it
would not change the result. And I believe imacat made it clear in a
later response.

Juergen

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Re: [RESULT][VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC2)

[Donald Whytock]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote:

> The vote period to release the RC2 (based on release branch AOO40,
> revision 1503704) as Apache OpenOffice 4.0 has ended.
>
> The ballot result in 24 votes, 24 +1 votes including 14 binding PMC
> member votes.
>
> 3 binding +1 votes are necessary for the release. That means the ballot
> closed successful to release the RC2 as AOO 4.0
>
> Vote tally
>
> +1 Jan Iversen (binding)
> +1 Keith McKenna
> +1 Olaf Felka
> +1 Sylvain Denis
> +1 Marco A.G. Pinto
> +1 V Stuart Foote
> +1 Samer Mansour
> +1 Ricardo Berlasso (binding)
> +1 Rory O'Farrell
> +1 Rob Weir (binding)
> +1 Shengfeng Liu
> +1 Kay Schenk (binding)
> +1 Marcus Lange (binding)
> +1 Regina Henschel (binding)
> +1 Andrew Rist (binding)
> +1 Donald Harbison (binding)
> +1 Xuacu
> +1 Juergen Schmidt (binding)
> +1 Yuzhen Fan
> +1 Andrea Pescetti (binding)
> +1 Armin Le Grand (binding)
> +1 Herbert Duerr (binding)
> +1 Kazunari Hirano (binding)
> +1 Andre Fischer (binding)
>
> Thanks
>
> Juergen
>
>
Imacat voted -1.  Is he non-binding?

Don

[RELEASE]: availability of uploads and synchronize SF mirrors

[Jürgen Schmidt]

The vote closed successful and I have once again uploaded the files in
the dist are on the people server.

/www/www.apache.org/dist/openoffice/4.0.0

The relevant files for SF are under
/www/www.apache.org/dist/extgernaldist/openoffice/4.0.0


I hope the rsync url works now, if not please contact the infra people
directly.

rsync Url: rsync.apache.org::apache-dist-external


A complete file list can you find here
http://people.apache.org/~jsc/aoo4.0_files_dist-openoffice-4.0.0.txt
http://people.apache.org/~jsc/aoo4.0_files_dist-externaldist-openoffice-4.0.0.txt

As I mentioned earlier I will be not available until next week Thursday.
But I hope I can follow the release a little bit to have some fun with
you all together ;-)

Juergen

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[RESULT][VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC2)

[Jürgen Schmidt]

The vote period to release the RC2 (based on release branch AOO40,
revision 1503704) as Apache OpenOffice 4.0 has ended.

The ballot result in 24 votes, 24 +1 votes including 14 binding PMC
member votes.

3 binding +1 votes are necessary for the release. That means the ballot
closed successful to release the RC2 as AOO 4.0

Vote tally

+1 Jan Iversen (binding)
+1 Keith McKenna
+1 Olaf Felka
+1 Sylvain Denis
+1 Marco A.G. Pinto
+1 V Stuart Foote
+1 Samer Mansour
+1 Ricardo Berlasso (binding)
+1 Rory O'Farrell
+1 Rob Weir (binding)
+1 Shengfeng Liu
+1 Kay Schenk (binding)
+1 Marcus Lange (binding)
+1 Regina Henschel (binding)
+1 Andrew Rist (binding)
+1 Donald Harbison (binding)
+1 Xuacu
+1 Juergen Schmidt (binding)
+1 Yuzhen Fan
+1 Andrea Pescetti (binding)
+1 Armin Le Grand (binding)
+1 Herbert Duerr (binding)
+1 Kazunari Hirano (binding)
+1 Andre Fischer (binding)

Thanks

Juergen

On 7/17/13 9:40 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> this is a call for vote on releasing the following release candidate
> (RC2 revision 1503704) as Apache OpenOffice 4.0. This will be an
> important release for Apache OpenOffice with bigger visible UI changes.
> It is a key milestone to continue the success of OpenOffice.
> 
> This release candidate provides the following important changes compared
> to former OpenOffice releases:
> 
> (1) a major UI change/improvement by introducing a new sidebar concept
> where the idea is the comes from IBM's Symphony. It's the combination of
> reimplementing a complete new framework for sidebars and merging the
> existing sidebar in impress and code of various content panels from the
> Symphony grant in OpenOffice.
> 
> (2) 190 fixes from Symphony are merged and integrated, mainly
> interoperability issues
> 
> (3) 600 defects are fixed
> 
> (4) many more features and improvements are integrated
> 
> For a detailed feature overview please see the release notes under
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes.
> But keep in mind that the release notes are not yet final and will be
> updated and polished ...
> 
> The release candidate artifacts (source release, as well as binary
> releases for 23 languages) and further information how to verify and
> review Apache OpenOffice 4.0 can be found on the following wiki page:
> 
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds#DevelopmentSnapshotBuilds-AOOSnapshot
> 
> The related and updated RAT scan for this RC can be found under
> http://people.apache.org/~jsc/aoo-4.0.0_rat/aoo-4.0.0_rat-output.html
> 
> The RC is based on the release branch AOO400, revision 1503704!
> 
> Please vote on releasing this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0.
> 
> The vote starts now and will be open until:
> 
>UTC 3:00pm on Friday, 19 July: 2013-07-19 3:00 UTC.
> 
> 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.
> 
>[ ] +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0
>[ ]  0 Don't care
>[ ] -1 Do not release this package because...
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Re: [VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC2)

[Andre Fischer]

Downloaded the tar.bz2, checked the MD5 and SHA256 checksums, built and 
started.  Everything OK


+1

Andre


On 17.07.2013 09:40, Jürgen Schmidt wrote:

Hi all,

this is a call for vote on releasing the following release candidate
(RC2 revision 1503704) as Apache OpenOffice 4.0. This will be an
important release for Apache OpenOffice with bigger visible UI changes.
It is a key milestone to continue the success of OpenOffice.

This release candidate provides the following important changes compared
to former OpenOffice releases:

(1) a major UI change/improvement by introducing a new sidebar concept
where the idea is the comes from IBM's Symphony. It's the combination of
reimplementing a complete new framework for sidebars and merging the
existing sidebar in impress and code of various content panels from the
Symphony grant in OpenOffice.

(2) 190 fixes from Symphony are merged and integrated, mainly
interoperability issues

(3) 600 defects are fixed

(4) many more features and improvements are integrated

For a detailed feature overview please see the release notes under
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes.
But keep in mind that the release notes are not yet final and will be
updated and polished ...

The release candidate artifacts (source release, as well as binary
releases for 23 languages) and further information how to verify and
review Apache OpenOffice 4.0 can be found on the following wiki page:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds#DevelopmentSnapshotBuilds-AOOSnapshot

The related and updated RAT scan for this RC can be found under
http://people.apache.org/~jsc/aoo-4.0.0_rat/aoo-4.0.0_rat-output.html

The RC is based on the release branch AOO400, revision 1503704!

Please vote on releasing this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0.

The vote starts now and will be open until:

UTC 3:00pm on Friday, 19 July: 2013-07-19 3:00 UTC.

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.

[ ] +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0
[ ]  0 Don't care
[ ] -1 Do not release this package because...

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Re: [PROPOSAL] End-of-Life for OpenOffice.org 3.3.0

[Jürgen Schmidt]

On 7/19/13 2:20 PM, Rob Weir wrote:
> We currently have this link from the download page,from 2009,
> announcing end-of-life for OpenOffice.org 2.x:
> 
> http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/eol.html
> 
> I'd like to update that page to also state that 3.x version prior to
> 3.4.x are also end-of-life.  Why?  We're unlikely to issue any more
> security patches for 3.3.0 or earlier.
> 
> So the concrete proposal is:
> 
> 1) Update the eol.html page to state that OOo 3.3.0 and earlier are no
> longer supported.
> 
> 2) Create a new landing page for users of OOo 3.3.0 and before who are
> using a language version that we do not yet have a translation.
> Explain in this page that the earlier versions are no longer
> supported.  List what translations are currently available and where
> they can be downloaded from.  Give information on how they can
> volunteer to help translate AOO into their native language.
> 
> 3) Configure the update notification server to OOo 3.3.0 users to this
> new landing page, if their language is not already translated.  (Where
> there is a translation we already point them to the download page)
> 
> 4) Blog post/announcement on end-of-life for OOo 3.3.0 and earlier.
> 
> The end result is that:  1) We made it clear what versions are
> supported.  2) We did our due diligence to reach out to users of older
> versions.  3) We encourage new translation volunteers.
> 
> No rush on this.  It does not need to be done at the same time as the
> 4.0 announcement.  It can follow a week or so later.
> 

+1

Juergen

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Re: [PROPOSAL] End-of-Life for OpenOffice.org 3.3.0

[janI]

+1

rgds
jan i
On Jul 19, 2013 2:53 PM, "Dave Fisher"  wrote:

> +1
>
> On Jul 19, 2013, at 5:20 AM, Rob Weir wrote:
>
> > We currently have this link from the download page,from 2009,
> > announcing end-of-life for OpenOffice.org 2.x:
> >
> > http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/eol.html
> >
> > I'd like to update that page to also state that 3.x version prior to
> > 3.4.x are also end-of-life.  Why?  We're unlikely to issue any more
> > security patches for 3.3.0 or earlier.
> >
> > So the concrete proposal is:
> >
> > 1) Update the eol.html page to state that OOo 3.3.0 and earlier are no
> > longer supported.
> >
> > 2) Create a new landing page for users of OOo 3.3.0 and before who are
> > using a language version that we do not yet have a translation.
> > Explain in this page that the earlier versions are no longer
> > supported.  List what translations are currently available and where
> > they can be downloaded from.  Give information on how they can
> > volunteer to help translate AOO into their native language.
> >
> > 3) Configure the update notification server to OOo 3.3.0 users to this
> > new landing page, if their language is not already translated.  (Where
> > there is a translation we already point them to the download page)
> >
> > 4) Blog post/announcement on end-of-life for OOo 3.3.0 and earlier.
> >
> > The end result is that:  1) We made it clear what versions are
> > supported.  2) We did our due diligence to reach out to users of older
> > versions.  3) We encourage new translation volunteers.
> >
> > No rush on this.  It does not need to be done at the same time as the
> > 4.0 announcement.  It can follow a week or so later.
> >
> > -Rob
> >
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Re: [VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC2)

[Kazunari Hirano]

+1

Thanks,
khirano


On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> this is a call for vote on releasing the following release candidate
> (RC2 revision 1503704) as Apache OpenOffice 4.0. This will be an
> important release for Apache OpenOffice with bigger visible UI changes.
> It is a key milestone to continue the success of OpenOffice.
>
> This release candidate provides the following important changes compared
> to former OpenOffice releases:
>
> (1) a major UI change/improvement by introducing a new sidebar concept
> where the idea is the comes from IBM's Symphony. It's the combination of
> reimplementing a complete new framework for sidebars and merging the
> existing sidebar in impress and code of various content panels from the
> Symphony grant in OpenOffice.
>
> (2) 190 fixes from Symphony are merged and integrated, mainly
> interoperability issues
>
> (3) 600 defects are fixed
>
> (4) many more features and improvements are integrated
>
> For a detailed feature overview please see the release notes under
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes
> .
> But keep in mind that the release notes are not yet final and will be
> updated and polished ...
>
> The release candidate artifacts (source release, as well as binary
> releases for 23 languages) and further information how to verify and
> review Apache OpenOffice 4.0 can be found on the following wiki page:
>
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds#DevelopmentSnapshotBuilds-AOOSnapshot
>
> The related and updated RAT scan for this RC can be found under
> http://people.apache.org/~jsc/aoo-4.0.0_rat/aoo-4.0.0_rat-output.html
>
> The RC is based on the release branch AOO400, revision 1503704!
>
> Please vote on releasing this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0.
>
> The vote starts now and will be open until:
>
>UTC 3:00pm on Friday, 19 July: 2013-07-19 3:00 UTC.
>
> 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.
>
>[ ] +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0
>[ ]  0 Don't care
>[ ] -1 Do not release this package because...
>
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Re: [VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC2)

[Herbert Dürr]

On 17.07.2013 09:40, Jürgen Schmidt wrote:

[...]
The RC is based on the release branch AOO400, revision 1503704!

Please vote on releasing this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0.

The vote starts now and will be open until:

UTC 3:00pm on Friday, 19 July: 2013-07-19 3:00 UTC.

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.

[ ] +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0
[ ]  0 Don't care
[ ] -1 Do not release this package because...


+1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0

Herbert

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Re: [PROPOSAL] End-of-Life for OpenOffice.org 3.3.0

[Dave Fisher]

+1

On Jul 19, 2013, at 5:20 AM, Rob Weir wrote:

> We currently have this link from the download page,from 2009,
> announcing end-of-life for OpenOffice.org 2.x:
> 
> http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/eol.html
> 
> I'd like to update that page to also state that 3.x version prior to
> 3.4.x are also end-of-life.  Why?  We're unlikely to issue any more
> security patches for 3.3.0 or earlier.
> 
> So the concrete proposal is:
> 
> 1) Update the eol.html page to state that OOo 3.3.0 and earlier are no
> longer supported.
> 
> 2) Create a new landing page for users of OOo 3.3.0 and before who are
> using a language version that we do not yet have a translation.
> Explain in this page that the earlier versions are no longer
> supported.  List what translations are currently available and where
> they can be downloaded from.  Give information on how they can
> volunteer to help translate AOO into their native language.
> 
> 3) Configure the update notification server to OOo 3.3.0 users to this
> new landing page, if their language is not already translated.  (Where
> there is a translation we already point them to the download page)
> 
> 4) Blog post/announcement on end-of-life for OOo 3.3.0 and earlier.
> 
> The end result is that:  1) We made it clear what versions are
> supported.  2) We did our due diligence to reach out to users of older
> versions.  3) We encourage new translation volunteers.
> 
> No rush on this.  It does not need to be done at the same time as the
> 4.0 announcement.  It can follow a week or so later.
> 
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Release preparation

[Jürgen Schmidt]

Hi,

the page http://openoffice.apache.org/downloads.html have to be updated.

Currently I ma struggling to access

http://www.apache.org/dist/openoffice
or the already existing KEYS file
http://www.apache.org/dist/openoffice/KEYS

I am in contact with infra...

There is also an Url used to the SDK using the mirrors
http://www.apache.org/dyn/aoo-closer.cgi/incubator/ooo/files/stable/3.4.1/Apache_OpenOffice_incubating-SDK_3.4.1_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz

I am not sure if aoo-closer-cgi have to be changed and who can do that.
I would expect a new Url like

http://www.apache.org/dyn/aoo-closer.cgi/openoffice/4.0.0/binaries/SDK/Apache_OpenOffice-SDK_4.0.0_MacOS_x86_install_en-US.dmg

Does anybody know more?

Juergen

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[PROPOSAL] End-of-Life for OpenOffice.org 3.3.0

[Rob Weir]

We currently have this link from the download page,from 2009,
announcing end-of-life for OpenOffice.org 2.x:

http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/eol.html

I'd like to update that page to also state that 3.x version prior to
3.4.x are also end-of-life.  Why?  We're unlikely to issue any more
security patches for 3.3.0 or earlier.

So the concrete proposal is:

1) Update the eol.html page to state that OOo 3.3.0 and earlier are no
longer supported.

2) Create a new landing page for users of OOo 3.3.0 and before who are
using a language version that we do not yet have a translation.
Explain in this page that the earlier versions are no longer
supported.  List what translations are currently available and where
they can be downloaded from.  Give information on how they can
volunteer to help translate AOO into their native language.

3) Configure the update notification server to OOo 3.3.0 users to this
new landing page, if their language is not already translated.  (Where
there is a translation we already point them to the download page)

4) Blog post/announcement on end-of-life for OOo 3.3.0 and earlier.

The end result is that:  1) We made it clear what versions are
supported.  2) We did our due diligence to reach out to users of older
versions.  3) We encourage new translation volunteers.

No rush on this.  It does not need to be done at the same time as the
4.0 announcement.  It can follow a week or so later.

-Rob

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Re: Release communications -- plans

[Andrea Pescetti]

Marcus (OOo) wrote:

Am 07/19/2013 08:03 AM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti:

1) I recall seeing that there was a "static" version available for each
page, which was the recommended one for publishing links (and had a URL
ending in .html). I can't see it now. What is the link we should publish?

http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/4.0.0.html


Sorry, I meant the static version of the cwiki page. The cwiki pages 
exist in two versions, the "live" one and a static one that is 
automatically generated (and, possibly, handles the traffic better?). In 
the meantime I found it: the static version of

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes
is
https://cwiki.apache.org/OOOUSERS/aoo-40-release-notes.html
but the former actually looks nicer...

As for the www.openoffice.org page, if I get it right we won't be 
copying the release notes to the website right now: we will use the 
cwiki version at release time.



2) May we get rid of the "Upgraded to 3.5.17. Upgrade to 5.1 delayed."
notice in the page header? ...

Does someone from our project has inserted the hint? I thought it was an
Infra topic.


Yes, this was added by Infra when they upgraded Cwiki. The static 
version does not display it.


Regards,
  Andrea.

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Re: Release communications -- plans

[Rob Weir]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Andrea Pescetti  wrote:
> On 18/07/2013 Rob Weir wrote:
>>
>> The Release Notes are starting to look very nice.  It is worth
>> reviewing if you have not looked recently:
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes
>
>
> Indeed, they are nice. The part introducing the Sidebar is very good too.
>
> Just a question: we will be promoting this Cwiki page, but:
>
> 1) I recall seeing that there was a "static" version available for each
> page, which was the recommended one for publishing links (and had a URL
> ending in .html). I can't see it now. What is the link we should publish?
>

The Press Release went out with a link to the CWiki version of the
Release Notes (the only version we have).  The blog post links to that
as well, though that can be changed if someone makes a static version.


> 2) May we get rid of the "Upgraded to 3.5.17. Upgrade to 5.1 delayed."
> notice in the page header? We've probably get used to it (it's about the
> Cwiki upgrade, nothing to do with OpenOffice) and we don't notice it any
> longer since it has been there for weeks, but a lot of people are likely to
> mistake it for a notice about the OpenOffice upgrades.
>

If you press the '[' key you can eliminate the navigator on the left,
but I don't see a special URL for that.  It would be great if there
was a special URL that would show only the page contents without the
nav or header.

Regards,

-Rob

> Regards,
>   Andrea.
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Re: [VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC2)

[Armin Le Grand]

+1

Armin

On 17.07.2013 09:40, Jürgen Schmidt wrote:

Hi all,

this is a call for vote on releasing the following release candidate
(RC2 revision 1503704) as Apache OpenOffice 4.0. This will be an
important release for Apache OpenOffice with bigger visible UI changes.
It is a key milestone to continue the success of OpenOffice.

This release candidate provides the following important changes compared
to former OpenOffice releases:

(1) a major UI change/improvement by introducing a new sidebar concept
where the idea is the comes from IBM's Symphony. It's the combination of
reimplementing a complete new framework for sidebars and merging the
existing sidebar in impress and code of various content panels from the
Symphony grant in OpenOffice.

(2) 190 fixes from Symphony are merged and integrated, mainly
interoperability issues

(3) 600 defects are fixed

(4) many more features and improvements are integrated

For a detailed feature overview please see the release notes under
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes.
But keep in mind that the release notes are not yet final and will be
updated and polished ...

The release candidate artifacts (source release, as well as binary
releases for 23 languages) and further information how to verify and
review Apache OpenOffice 4.0 can be found on the following wiki page:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds#DevelopmentSnapshotBuilds-AOOSnapshot

The related and updated RAT scan for this RC can be found under
http://people.apache.org/~jsc/aoo-4.0.0_rat/aoo-4.0.0_rat-output.html

The RC is based on the release branch AOO400, revision 1503704!

Please vote on releasing this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0.

The vote starts now and will be open until:

UTC 3:00pm on Friday, 19 July: 2013-07-19 3:00 UTC.

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.

[ ] +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0
[ ]  0 Don't care
[ ] -1 Do not release this package because...

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Re: [VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC2)

[Andrea Pescetti]

On 17/07/2013 Jürgen Schmidt wrote:

this is a call for vote on releasing the following release candidate
(RC2 revision 1503704) as Apache OpenOffice 4.0. ...
[ ] +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0
[ ]  0 Don't care
[ ] -1 Do not release this package because...


+1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0

Andrea

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[QA][Test Report] Weekly Status Update as of 20130719

[Yuzhen Fan]

Hi All,

We complete release candidate acceptance test on RC1 and RC2, as well as
the defect verification we can do, here is the weekly update (07/15 -
07/19):

*Test execution:*
1. Release candidate acceptance test - please see detail in TestLink
We have completed 76 executions dedicated for release candidate, no new
critical issues are found in RC2
2. Release candidate acceptance test - test guidance here:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+RC+Acceptance+Test+Guidance

*Defect summary:*
1. Defect verification(with flag 4.0.0_release_blocker+) : there are 39
bugs in backlog now, among of them, 16 are for translation, 11 are for
code, which need actions from native reporters and development, respectively

Accomplished this week (only for Function UI)

Verified/FixedReopenedWait for buildLook for env/platform
New fixed/added in backlog
90015

Backlog at end of this week

TotalL10NFunction CodeFunction UI
39161112

*Issues & quality highlight:*
1. Windows 8 crash is reported on RC1 and get fixed in RC2
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=122752
2. There are no new critical issues are found on RC2, Vote for RC2 will
being closed this Friday(7/19)
*
Volunteer status: *
1. 6 volunteers are on test execution work for RC
2. No volunteers are for left translation defects' verification
*
Plan for next week:*
1. Work with volunteers to verify defects as release blocker (total 39)

Thanks you all for effort this week, we are towards to the release of AOO
4.0, we are almost there!!

Regards,
Yu Zhen

Re: [VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC2)

[Yuzhen Fan]

+1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0

I have successfully installed RC2 on Win7, Mac, Ubuntu and RHEL. I play
with the Writer, Calc, Impress for a while, there are no new critical
issues to prevent releasing it.

Regards,
Yu Zhen


On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote:

> On 7/17/13 9:40 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > this is a call for vote on releasing the following release candidate
> > (RC2 revision 1503704) as Apache OpenOffice 4.0. This will be an
> > important release for Apache OpenOffice with bigger visible UI changes.
> > It is a key milestone to continue the success of OpenOffice.
> >
> > This release candidate provides the following important changes compared
> > to former OpenOffice releases:
> >
> > (1) a major UI change/improvement by introducing a new sidebar concept
> > where the idea is the comes from IBM's Symphony. It's the combination of
> > reimplementing a complete new framework for sidebars and merging the
> > existing sidebar in impress and code of various content panels from the
> > Symphony grant in OpenOffice.
> >
> > (2) 190 fixes from Symphony are merged and integrated, mainly
> > interoperability issues
> >
> > (3) 600 defects are fixed
> >
> > (4) many more features and improvements are integrated
> >
> > For a detailed feature overview please see the release notes under
> >
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes
> .
> > But keep in mind that the release notes are not yet final and will be
> > updated and polished ...
> >
> > The release candidate artifacts (source release, as well as binary
> > releases for 23 languages) and further information how to verify and
> > review Apache OpenOffice 4.0 can be found on the following wiki page:
> >
> >
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds#DevelopmentSnapshotBuilds-AOOSnapshot
> >
> > The related and updated RAT scan for this RC can be found under
> > http://people.apache.org/~jsc/aoo-4.0.0_rat/aoo-4.0.0_rat-output.html
> >
> > The RC is based on the release branch AOO400, revision 1503704!
> >
> > Please vote on releasing this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0.
> >
> > The vote starts now and will be open until:
> >
> >UTC 3:00pm on Friday, 19 July: 2013-07-19 3:00 UTC.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >[ ] +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0
> >[ ]  0 Don't care
> >[ ] -1 Do not release this package because...
> >
>
> +1 from me
>
> I have done my normal test routine, have built the src release , have
> played with the SDK and the office. Looks fine for to me.
>
> Juergen
>
>
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Re: Release communications -- plans

[Ricardo Berlasso]

2013/7/18 Rob Weir 

> The Release Notes are starting to look very nice.  It is worth
> reviewing if you have not looked recently:
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes
>

I noticed that the "gatekeeper" notice is twice on the release notes and
with the same text, one under "known issues" and the other near the end,
under upgrading/installation, is that intended? Maybe the second one should
be shorter, pointing to the "known issues"?

BTW, ES translation is ready.

Regards
Ricardo




>
> This is the primary statement of what is in the release.  The
> introductory sections are general enough that this page can be used as
> a self-contained announcement message. It doesn't require additional
> context.
>
> However, we will have additional announcement statements.
>
> 1) There will be a press release.  This repeats a subset of the
> contents of the release nots, but it the format and style that is
> expected in a press release.  Don Harbison took the lead on drafting
> that.
>
> 2) We should also have a brief blog post.  Maybe only a paragraph or
> two and then a link to the Release Notes.  I don't want to spend too
> much time on the blog post since I am almost certain the blog will
> crash under load.  For that reason I'd recommend that we don't promote
> the blog page via social media, etc.,   Promote the Release Notes
> instead.
>
> In the past we've translated the blog post.  But in this case I'd
> recommend we focus on translating the Release Notes.
>
> 3) A brief announcement to our mailing lists, including the 9000
> subscribers of our announcement mailing list.  Again, linking back to
> the Release Notes.
>
> 4) Posts to Twitter, Google+, Facebook, etc.  This is something where
> everyone can help spread the news, by sharing, +1'ing,  RT'ing,. etc.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Rob
>
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Re: [VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC2)

[Jürgen Schmidt]

On 7/17/13 9:40 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> this is a call for vote on releasing the following release candidate
> (RC2 revision 1503704) as Apache OpenOffice 4.0. This will be an
> important release for Apache OpenOffice with bigger visible UI changes.
> It is a key milestone to continue the success of OpenOffice.
> 
> This release candidate provides the following important changes compared
> to former OpenOffice releases:
> 
> (1) a major UI change/improvement by introducing a new sidebar concept
> where the idea is the comes from IBM's Symphony. It's the combination of
> reimplementing a complete new framework for sidebars and merging the
> existing sidebar in impress and code of various content panels from the
> Symphony grant in OpenOffice.
> 
> (2) 190 fixes from Symphony are merged and integrated, mainly
> interoperability issues
> 
> (3) 600 defects are fixed
> 
> (4) many more features and improvements are integrated
> 
> For a detailed feature overview please see the release notes under
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes.
> But keep in mind that the release notes are not yet final and will be
> updated and polished ...
> 
> The release candidate artifacts (source release, as well as binary
> releases for 23 languages) and further information how to verify and
> review Apache OpenOffice 4.0 can be found on the following wiki page:
> 
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds#DevelopmentSnapshotBuilds-AOOSnapshot
> 
> The related and updated RAT scan for this RC can be found under
> http://people.apache.org/~jsc/aoo-4.0.0_rat/aoo-4.0.0_rat-output.html
> 
> The RC is based on the release branch AOO400, revision 1503704!
> 
> Please vote on releasing this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0.
> 
> The vote starts now and will be open until:
> 
>UTC 3:00pm on Friday, 19 July: 2013-07-19 3:00 UTC.
> 
> 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.
> 
>[ ] +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0
>[ ]  0 Don't care
>[ ] -1 Do not release this package because...
> 

+1 from me

I have done my normal test routine, have built the src release , have
played with the SDK and the office. Looks fine for to me.

Juergen



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Re: [VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC2)

[Xuacu]

+1

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Jürgen Schmidt  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> this is a call for vote on releasing the following release candidate
> (RC2 revision 1503704) as Apache OpenOffice 4.0. This will be an
> important release for Apache OpenOffice with bigger visible UI changes.
> It is a key milestone to continue the success of OpenOffice.
>
> This release candidate provides the following important changes compared
> to former OpenOffice releases:
>
> (1) a major UI change/improvement by introducing a new sidebar concept
> where the idea is the comes from IBM's Symphony. It's the combination of
> reimplementing a complete new framework for sidebars and merging the
> existing sidebar in impress and code of various content panels from the
> Symphony grant in OpenOffice.
>
> (2) 190 fixes from Symphony are merged and integrated, mainly
> interoperability issues
>
> (3) 600 defects are fixed
>
> (4) many more features and improvements are integrated
>
> For a detailed feature overview please see the release notes under
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes.
> But keep in mind that the release notes are not yet final and will be
> updated and polished ...
>
> The release candidate artifacts (source release, as well as binary
> releases for 23 languages) and further information how to verify and
> review Apache OpenOffice 4.0 can be found on the following wiki page:
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds#DevelopmentSnapshotBuilds-AOOSnapshot
>
> The related and updated RAT scan for this RC can be found under
> http://people.apache.org/~jsc/aoo-4.0.0_rat/aoo-4.0.0_rat-output.html
>
> The RC is based on the release branch AOO400, revision 1503704!
>
> Please vote on releasing this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0.
>
> The vote starts now and will be open until:
>
>UTC 3:00pm on Friday, 19 July: 2013-07-19 3:00 UTC.
>
> 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.
>
>[ ] +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0
>[ ]  0 Don't care
>[ ] -1 Do not release this package because...
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Re: Release communications -- plans

[Marcus (OOo)]

Am 07/19/2013 08:03 AM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti:

On 18/07/2013 Rob Weir wrote:

The Release Notes are starting to look very nice. It is worth
reviewing if you have not looked recently:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes



Indeed, they are nice. The part introducing the Sidebar is very good too.

Just a question: we will be promoting this Cwiki page, but:

1) I recall seeing that there was a "static" version available for each
page, which was the recommended one for publishing links (and had a URL
ending in .html). I can't see it now. What is the link we should publish?


Release Notes to all OOo and AOO versions are here:

http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/

So, for 4.0 I would expect:

http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/4.0.0.html


2) May we get rid of the "Upgraded to 3.5.17. Upgrade to 5.1 delayed."
notice in the page header? We've probably get used to it (it's about the
Cwiki upgrade, nothing to do with OpenOffice) and we don't notice it any
longer since it has been there for weeks, but a lot of people are likely
to mistake it for a notice about the OpenOffice upgrades.


Does someone from our project has inserted the hint? I thought it was an 
Infra topic.


If it's possible than yes, it should be deleted.

Marcus


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