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OpenOffice.org 2.0 Is Here

After the most important feedback of 2 betas and 3 release candidates has been incorporated OpenOffice.org 2.0 is now available.

I would like to thank not only our developers, users, marketeers, ... - all community members - but also appreciate the improvement of the site performance.

During the release preparations the site was moved to a new machine, a farm of site accelerators has been installed and then we felt prepared. But there are quite some mail messages queued and they are delivered now after hours, sometimes days. This is the first time I was involved in a launch with almost no email. I have to thank all who helped to smooth out all the misunderstandings which resulted from messages arriving out of order. I think we convinced some more people that IRC and Instant Messaging (IM) are very helpful communication mechanisms.

Posted at 03:37PM Okt 20, 2005 by Stefan Taxhet in OpenOffice.org  |  Kommentare[1]

OpenOffice.org 2.0 RC3

Tomorrow is the fifth birthday for OpenOffice.org. And it would have been nice to release OpenOffice.org 2.0 at the 13th of October. But in the last minute a serious showstopper (#i55330#) has been brought up. In a discussion on IRC we agreed that this is reason enough to start work on RC3. Fortunately Christian was able to provide a solution quickly. This gives us the chance to integrate a patch for printing of text when UI language is RTL (#i55719#) - thanks Alan. Furthermore two more problems (#i55679#, #i55627#) for the Mac OS X will make it in RC3 - thanks Eric, Heiner, Pavel.
The release will be pushed out for about a week. This allows the mirrors to recover from major releases of other large packages. Additionally the new OpenOffice.org hardware should give the main site some relief.
See the new tentative release plan for details.

Posted at 05:39PM Okt 12, 2005 by Stefan Taxhet in OpenOffice.org  |  Kommentare[2]