OpenOffice.org 3.0 Release Candidate 4 build OOO300_m9 which installs as OpenOffice.org 3.0 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 and if you believe this is a show stopper then please notify the releases mailing list.

Please use the following link
http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html

If Bouncer links on that page do not work then please take one of the mirrors listed at

http://download.openoffice.org/680/index-nojs.html

Localized packages are available from extended mirror sites from within the ./extended/3.0.0rc4 directory:

http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors#extmirrors

Please note: Not all mirrors have been confirmed to have the build. 

MD5SUMS:
http://download.openoffice.org/680/md5sums.html

tags: openoffice.org qa release snapshot

With adding module testautomation ( all automated testscripts ) to CWS process there is something to keep in mind:
If there are changes neccessary to automated test scripts due to bug fixing or adding features in OpenOffice.org/StarOffice one must assure
that automated tests have to be adapted before a CWS is set to 'ready for QA' state. This is a must because testing procedure starts with
'ready for QA' state of a CWS and it makes no sense to fix issues within test scripts while in testing phase because it would lead to
inconsistency in testresults.

Please call testscript developers in planning and implementing features or bugfixes as early as possible (of course this includes writing an
issue to script developer also) if you are not sure (QA and Development) if an automated test should be adapted or enhanced. Without doing this
'ping-pong' of a CWS ( ready for QA <-> new ) is guaranteed. A responsibilities list can be found here to chum up with:
http://qa.openoffice.org/ooQAReloaded/AutomationTeamsite/ooQA-TeamAutomationResp.html

Thanks for your support !

tags: automated_tests qa

OpenOffice.org 3.0 Release Candidate 3 build OOO300_m8 which installs as OpenOffice.org 3.0 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 and if you believe this is a show stopper then please notify the releases mailing list.

Please use the following link
http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html

If Bouncer links on that page do not work then please take one of the mirrors listed at

http://download.openoffice.org/680/index-nojs.html

Localized packages are available from extended mirror sites from within the ./extended/3.0.0rc3 directory:

http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors#extmirrors

MD5SUMS:
http://download.openoffice.org/680/md5sums.html

tags: openoffice.org qa release snapshot

tags: document odf open opendocument openoffice openoffice.org wiki

OpenOffice.org 3.0 Release Candidate 2 build OOO300_m7 which installs as OpenOffice.org 3.0 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 and if you believe this is a show stopper then please notify the releases mailing list.

Please use the following link
http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html

Localized packages are available from extended mirror sites from within the ./extended/3.0.0rc2 directory:

http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors#extmirrors

MD5SUMS:
http://download.openoffice.org/680/md5sums.html

tags: openoffice.org qa release snapshot

As this is my first blog at Gullfoss I like to give a short introduction of myself. I am a member of the User Experience team of Sun Microsystems in Hamburg and I am working on OpenOffice.org in different areas.

Today I would like to introduce the upcoming OpenOffice.org template browser.
A typical user scenario is a quick search for a single template and to use it immediately.
Currently we have templates available only as template pack extensions in the extension repository, each with an amount of templates the user needs first to sight respectively sort out those ones he does not need.

The template browser will provide the download and upload of templates which are accessible as single documents. 'Download' means in this context to select a template, which opens in the appropriate OpenOffice.org application.

Finding certain templates is provided by some main categories with their subcategories. Furthermore search results can be narrowed down e.g. by selection of the application type or the period of availability. The results and the user interface can be shown in dependence of a selected language.

In a next release these features will be offered from within the OpenOffice.org via a redesigned “Templates and Documents”-dialog so that the user can interact with the web site content directly from within the user interface and work online and offline on his templates.

I hope I have raised your curiosity. :)

tags: templates

OpenOffice.org 3.0 Release Candidate 1 build OOO300_m5 which installs as OpenOffice.org 3.0 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 and if you believe this is a show stopper then please notify the releases mailing list.

Please use the following link
http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html

Localized packages are available from extended mirror sites from within the ./extended/3.0.0rc1 directory:

http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors#extmirrors

MD5SUMS:
http://download.openoffice.org/680/md5sums.html

tags: openoffice.org qa release snapshot

Just as to give a brief overview on ODF@WWW.

This is the YouTube video I uploaded a while ago, it has been watched roughly a 3000 times :-) Recently I uploaded it to the Sun Learning eXchange as well, quality seems to be much better. The genuine version can be found on http://mediacast.sun.com as 720p here.

Here an article by Dmitri Popov published on linux.com and some references to it:

http://www.openforumeurope.org/press-room/latest-news/turn-openoffice-org-into-a-web-editing-tool-with-odf-www
http://www.topix.com/business/accounting/2008/08/turn-openoffice-org-into-a-web-editing-tool-with-odf-www

These are the blog entries I posted on GullFOSS:

ODF@WWW - An ODF Wiki http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/odf_www_an_odf_wiki
ODF@WWW - How it Works http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/odf_www_how_it_works
ODF@WWW - Simly Install http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/odf_www_simply_install
ODF@WWW - Going Forward http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/odf_www_going_forward

They have been viewed some thousand times, unfortunately I don't have the numbers at hand.

There are some other blogs, which jumped on my postings (some are foreign, such as Rumanian or Japanese :-)
- http://habrahabr.ru/blog/webdev/45432.html
- http://ptsefton.com/2008/06/20/an-ice-like-odf-based-web-publishing-system.htm
- http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/830
- http://www.zimbio.com/Open+Office/articles/102/ODF+Wiki
- http://opentechpress.jp/opensource/08/08/11/0211238.shtml
- http://ptsefton.com/2008/06/20/an-ice-like-odf-based-web-publishing-system.htm
- http://boycottnovell.com/2008/06/28/odf-www-wiki/

Some comments from various mailing lists and personal mails on ODF@WWW:

- "Wow this is really amazing, finally someone came up with some of my pipe dreams :)"
- "It's an excellent idea, and it is, as you pointed out the tip of the iceberg: what you demoed is the future of OOo."
- "This is great! For wikis to really get used by normal users for company intranets, they need this kind of easy-to-use interface, just as you've developed here!"
- "Outstanding functionality, congrats! I think this is the future ..."
- "This is quite clever indeed. However, to make it really cool it ..."
- "Awesome! (Hey, and the soundtrack was great too)."
- "OHMYGOD! M$ is gonna be so over it!"
- "We really appreciate what you're doing."
- "It’s a great start, and I am looking forward to what Ramme develops next with this project."
- "This is way cool."
- "Congratulations for implementing the ODF@WWW feature. It is really amazing."

Here are the installation instructions and here is the code.

Last but not least I got deployment requests from prominent web sites :-) , which I certainly would like to satisfy, unfortunately the ODF@WWW not is not yet production ready.

 Regards

Kay

tags: document odf open opendocument openoffice openoffice.org wiki

OOo-Dev3.0 Developer Snapshot build OOO300_m4 which installs as OOo-Dev 3.0 has been uploaded to the mirror network.

The rename of the product name to OOo-Dev allows the installation of the OpenOffice.org snapshot parallel to an OpenOffice.org  'final' (released) version. For this version the usual language packs de, fr and ja have been uploaded and they should install into the OOo-Dev installation. Please note that language packs are not yet available for Mac OS X.

If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker and if you believe this is a show stopper then please notify the releases mailing list.

Please use the following link
http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html

MD5SUMS:
http://download.openoffice.org/680/md5sums.html

tags: openoffice.org qa release snapshot

tags: automated_tests qa quaste