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2.0.1 RC1 and Showstoppers

While the mail system is still not fully functional Martin's message made it to releases@ooo and it's archive and Andre prepared an announcement for the QA project: 2.0.1 RC1 is available for download.

By now we know that some serious issues force us to prepare an RC2. Localizations got lost (#i58577#), testtool doesn't work (#i58564#) and users should not be confused by a wrong version number (#i58540#). The release plan will be adjusted soon.

Outbound mail notifications from IssueTracker and CVS have only some minutes delay. But the mail exchanger seems to be throttled somehow so that many messages to the lists are still queued and need hours if not days to be delivered.

In the meantime we continue to use issues and the wiki pages plus blogs to synchronize the efforts...

Posted at 09:57PM Nov 28, 2005 by Stefan Taxhet in OpenOffice.org  | 

Another Release without Mail?

As Pavel pointed out it seemed that we would have to prepare another release without mail. The site suffered from the recent W32.Sober worm. Messages to mailing lists were delivered with a delay of a day or more.

The question how Reply-To headers should be handled by mailing lists seems to be discussed controversially. There are articles why reply-to mangling is useful or harmful. I think those subscribed to the lists can perfectly life with the current setting of OOo lists. I understand those that are not, but this topic shouldn't lead to such an interruption in communication as the mail delay does.

And Martin updated the OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 Release Plan. You will read it on the releases@ooo list in about 8 hours. :-(

Posted at 04:30PM Nov 24, 2005 by Stefan Taxhet in OpenOffice.org  |  Kommentare[1]

Localization help needed for OpenOffice.org 2.0.1

It took some time to finalize OpenOffice.org 2.0 we released in October for several platforms and large number of languages at almost the same time. Now the planning for a new major release is ongoing. But in the meantime we continiously fix bugs and also introduce new features in micro releases (2.0.1, 2.0.2, ...). But this appreciated change in the handling of stable codelines faces us with the problem to keep the localizations in sync.

The highlevel release plan for 2.0.1 says that the deadline for fixes was on November 10th. If we look at the more detailed plan maintained in our new wiki, we see that a release candidate for 2.0.1 is overdue.

Some strings are not translated and unfortunately they are very visible in the insert menu. Please support the effort to finalize the translation so that we can try to regain the lost time. Many thanks for the Danish, Dutch, French, German translations contributed in hours after the call for help to issue 58172

Posted at 09:45PM Nov 20, 2005 by Stefan Taxhet in OpenOffice.org  |  Kommentare[0]