Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev OOO320_m4 which installs as OOo-DEV 3.2.0 has been uploaded.

If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.

Please use the following link:
http://download.openoffice.org/next

Packages are also available from extended mirror sites ( listed with an [E] ) from the ".../extended/developer/OOO320_m4" directory:
http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#extmirrors

Release Notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/OOO320_m4_snapshot.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/OOO320_m4_md5sums.txt

tags: openoffice.org qa release snapshot

tags: build gullfoss linux openoffice.org parallelization scalability

Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev OOO320_m3 which installs as OOo-DEV 3.2.0 has been uploaded.

If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.

Please use the following link:
http://download.openoffice.org/next

Release Notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/OOO320_m3_snapshot.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/OOO320_m3_md5sums.txt

tags: openoffice.org qa release snapshot

tags: ooocon2009 openoffice.org statistics

a follow up to blog: OOo QA Internship programm

I am proud to introduce the results from the three month individual project of the Hitek school students, which is an important and closing part inside the oo qa internship program: Sample Music Database

p.s. a lot of further info & stuff you get on the students sites

screenshots from a students sample database:

.. at the end i would like to quote Nadejda, a student from the project:

"I'd like to say THANK YOU, OOo Openoffice for this project! Thank you for opportunity to learn so many new things! The time of internship was a great time! Sometimes it was very hard but I enjoyed it. I will miss you. Good luck OOo Openoffice!"

bye Chris

tags: community ooo open open-source openoffice.org opensource qa quality software sun

Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev DEV300_m63 which still installs as OOo-DEV 3.2 has been uploaded to the mirror network.

If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.

Please use the following link:
http://download.openoffice.org/next

Packages are also available from extended mirror sites ( listed with an [E] ) from the ".../extended/developer/DEV300_m62" directory:
http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#extmirrors

Release Notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m63_snapshot.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m63_md5sums.txt

tags: openoffice.org qa release snapshot

Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev DEV300_m62 which still installs as OOo-DEV 3.2 has been uploaded to the mirror network.

If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.

Please use the following link:
http://download.openoffice.org/next

Packages are also available from extended mirror sites ( listed with an [E] ) from the ".../extended/developer/DEV300_m62" directory:
http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#extmirrors

Release Notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m62_snapshot.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m62_md5sums.txt

tags: openoffice.org qa release snapshot

Dear QA team,

please install the OOO320_m2 developer snapshot build (called OpenOffice.org 3.2 Beta) and test this version. If you think that bugs you found within this version are show stoppers for OpenOffice.org 3.2 then please report these bugs/issues to the bug reporting application IssueTracker at http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/pre_submission.html  and notify the releases mailing list. Note: this version does not include current localization.

tags: beta openoffice.org qa release snapshot

Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev OOO320_m2 which installs as OOo-DEV 3.2.0 has been uploaded.

In the Release Status Meeting it was agreed that this is a normal snapshot build. However, it will be treated as a Beta release (English-US only as the localization is not finished yet).

If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.

Please use the following link:
http://download.openoffice.org/next

Packages are also available from extended mirror sites ( listed with an [E] ) from the ".../extended/developer/OOO320_m2_3.2_beta" directory:
http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#extmirrors

Release Notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/OOO320_m2_snapshot.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/OOO320_m2_md5sums.txt

tags: beta openoffice.org qa release snapshot

I'm very pleased to announce, that after five months of piloting, implementation and and testing, we are finally ready to switch OpenOffice.org development to Mercurial (hg) as our SCM (Source Code Management) tool.

Mercurial is a modern and flexible distributed SCM tool with the fast and convenient merging capability which is so required for OOo development.

We have chosen Mercurial out of the three major open source DSCM tools available (Git, Bazaar and Mercurial) because we believe that its combination of ease of use, flexibility and performance fits best with the overall OOo needs. We are well aware that a slightly different emphasis on the selection criteria might well have led to a choice of Git or Bazaar, which are both very capable DSCMs as well.

Details:

We'll switch the DEV300 development code line first, the OOO320 (OpenOffice.org 3.2 release code line) will follow later. We certainly don't want to interfere with the OOo 3.2 release.

The DEV300 switch will happen around the 26th of October. The current DEV300 hg mirror repository on hg.services.openoffice.org will be elevated to be the reference repository, which is the place where release engineering pushes released milestones. Simultaneously release engineering will stop to commit new milestones to the current Subversion (svn) trunk.

Please stay tuned!

During the course of the next two weeks I'll make some announcements on the OOo mailing lists regarding the switch to Mercurial:
- where to find documentation
- which will be the last svn based milestone
- conversion of child workspaces to hg
- conventions which we will use

I'll give a talk at the OOo conference 2009 in Orvieto. If you happen to be there, this is just the right opportunity to throw ripe tomatoes at me ask me in person about the background of this migration, why we haven chosen Mercurial over Git or Bazaar and what our future plans are. Hope to see you there!

tags: hg mercurial ooo openoffice.org