Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev DEV300_m67 is available for download.

DEV300 is the development codeline for the upcoming OOo 3.x releases.

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

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

Release Notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m67_snapshot.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m67_md5sums.txt

tags: openoffice.org qa release snapshot

Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev OOO320_m7 which installs as OOo-DEV 3.2.0 has been uploaded.

The previously report issue is now fixed in this milestone: i107239 (Java GUI installer doesn't work).

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_m7_snapshot.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/OOO320_m7_md5sums.txt

tags: openoffice.org qa release snapshot

Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev DEV300_m66 which still installs as OOo-DEV 3.2 (see i107355) is available for download.

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/DEV300_m66_snapshot.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m66_md5sums.txt

tags: openoffice.org qa release snapshot

Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev OOO320_m6 which installs as OOo-DEV 3.2.0 has been uploaded.

ATTENTION:
Due to P1 issue http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=107239 the Java based installer will not work on all platforms where it is used. This issue will be fixed within the next milestone OOO320_m7.

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_m6_snapshot.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/OOO320_m6_md5sums.txt

tags: openoffice.org qa release snapshot

The current setup of websites for downloading OpenOffice.org installation sets provides builds for several languages and operating systems. But nowadays a lot more are built. Unfortunately they are not that easy to find as they are on mirror servers. The most users do not know this or how to come to these mirrors.

Furthermore there was no comfortable way to download language packs (currently for 96 languages !).

Another reason is that many native language teams have only a small staff or do not have the time to test all available Release Candidate (RC) builds on all platforms for their language. However, these are very close to a final release but have not got the latest tests. But why not offering these to the users with a hint to be carefully when using?

To improve this situation and to deliver more choice we have created a new download website layout.

Main Download Page

http://download.openoffice.org

This website was enhanced to download easily the build you want. Of course the well-known (green) One-Click download remains the same easy way to get your favorite version. The same for the orange button for Developer Snapshots. The new thing is the yellow button that will guide you to the website for Release Candidates.

Full Installations and Language Packs

The improvements were done here to provide all available stable builds:

http://download.openoffice.org/other.html

The first table provides all full installation sets as stable release of the current OpenOffice.org version. The second table provides all stable language packs.

BTW:
A language pack contains only resource files for a specific language and platform to show, e.g., menus, dialogs and error messages in your language. If translated it may contain also the help content. It's a comfortable way to get several languages without to install the applications double and triple. After installation change the languages via menu "Tools - Options - Language Settings - Languages - User Interface".

Release Candidates

http://download.openoffice.org/all_rc.html

Some days ago the 100 millionth download of an OpenOffice.org build was announced. We hope to increase this impressive number with the new download websites.

Happy downloading. :-)

tags: beta build candidate download languagepack openoffice.org qa release snapshot

Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev OOO320_m5 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_m5_snapshot.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/OOO320_m5_md5sums.txt

tags: openoffice.org qa release snapshot

Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev DEV300_m65 which installs as OOo-DEV 3.2 (subject to change) 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_m65" directory:
http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#extmirrors

Release Notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m65_snapshot.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m65_md5sums.txt

tags: openoffice.org qa release snapshot

As promised the results of automated tests for release workspace OOO320 starting minor m3 to m4. Explanation of testresults from OOO320m1 to OOO320m2 can be found here. As expected in previous blog the m3 had a green state as all features covered by automated tests had no issue. But unfortunately Issue 106678 put a spoke on our wheel and shredded all results in OOO320m4. Thats why this high number of errors and warnings made this build from our point of view useless. The reason why this issue wasn't found by automated tests in CWS impress180 is currently unknown. However see the graph on quality progress:

tags: automated_tests qa

Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev DEV300_m64 which installs as OOo-DEV 3.2 (subject to change) 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_m64" directory:
http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#extmirrors

Release Notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m64_snapshot.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m64_md5sums.txt

tags: openoffice.org qa release snapshot

Some words regarding the QA Camp last Thursday at the OpenOffice.org Conference in Orvieto, Italy:

Last Thursday many interested people met in Orvieto to talk about QA related topics. People came from all around the world.

Just to mention some of them:

Takamichi Akyiama [known as Tora] (OOo, Japan)
Shinji Enoki (OOo, Japan)
Makoto Takizawa (OOo, Japan)
André Schnabel (OOo, Germany)
Jaqueline Rahemipour (OOo, Germany)
Sophie Gautier (OOo, France)
Goran Rakic (OOo, Serbia)
Rudolf Ferenc (University of Szeged, Hungary)
Doug Bash (Seattle, USA)
Uwe Luebbers (Sun, Hamburg, Germany)

We talked about:

Quaste (a web application to compare VCL Testtool results),
QA-Track (a web application to register the release status of released builds),
Convwatch (a tool that can compare the document layout of different OOo versions via bitmap subtraction), about API/unit tests, about Automation by using the VCL Testtool, about TCM (a web application to store localized versions of test cases), about TCS (test case specifications), about the need of manual tests with input method editors (IME), about iTeams (Jaqueline talked about her experience with working together with Writer developers on a rework of the numbering feature in Writer), about CWS work (Sophie reported about her experience with CWS chartuseability01 and her work together with Chart developer Ingrid Halama). Rudlof Ferenc mentioned his team's work on OpenOffice.org source code analysis. And we talked about many many more things in detail..

All in all I think it was a very informative meeting and every attendee was able to take home new ideas and some information he/she was not aware of. The QA Camp was planned as an open house event but to my surprise most of the attendees stayed the whole three hours (!) and discussed and discussed.... :-)

I want to thank everybody making this event a success ! Especially I would like to thank the organizational team of this conference !

tags: event ooocon ooocon2009 qa