ReleaseStatus Minutes

On every Monday 3pm German time (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html) there is a meeting (#oooreleases on irc.freenode.net) to review the status for the next releases.

Agenda for next meeting

• Release status 2.3

• review of issue for 2.3.1

2007-09-24

Participants: Pavel Janik, Bettina Haberer, Martin Hollmichel, Uwe Luebbers, Heiner Rechtien, Ruediger Timm, Fridrich Strba, Kai Sommerfeld, Rene Engelhard

Release Status OOo 2.3

• it was agreed to try to provide binary patches for
  • Chart DEFECT VERIFIED FIXED P2 Smooth Lines dialog is too small to set all properties http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=81390
  • framework DEFECT RESOLVED FIXED P3 Fontwork display is broken http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=81609

on OOG680_m6 basis, Kai S. to identify source patches to be applied for m6.

=== Release Status OOo 2.3.1

• Uwe L, Thorsten and Martin to review 2.3.1 issue until next week, amount of issues seems far to high, criteria is that issues should have usual "stopper" criteria.

• Kai S. to review with sb udk DEFECT STARTED P2 OOo cannot start if SELinux is active http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=80816 if 2.3.1 might be a better target.

• suggest build schedule: m7 -> Oct. 11th, m8 -> Oct. 25th,

RE duties

• OOG680 this week Ruediger (rt)

• SRC680 Heiner (hr)

2007-09-10

Participants: Pavel Janik, Bettina Haberer, Martin Hollmichel, Uwe Luebbers, Michael Meeks(partly) Heiner Rechtien, Ruediger Timm, Fridrich Strba, Kai Sommerfeld, Rene Engelhard

Release Status OOo 2.3

• it was agreed to stop the show because of framework DEFECT RESOLVED FIXED P3 The extension is not automatically removed by export dialog. http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=81318

• it was agreed to include Database access DEFECT VERIFIED FIXED P2 Copy Table from one database to another crashes http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=81299 also in m5.

• also sdk DEFECT RESOLVED FIXED P2 missing ...awt/tree/.*idl files and related docu in the SDK http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=81317 was agreed on

• obo will start build of m5 as soon as possible, so that upload of next rc will be done on Tuesday, next possible release on September 17th.

RE duties

SRC680_m229: Ivo (ihi) OOG680: Oliver (obo)

Action Items (AI)

• Kai S. : to provide information around issues framework DEFECT CLOSED INVALID P3 .jar file for extension no longer in CLASSPATH http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=80100 and framework DEFECT UNCONFIRMED P1 OOo_2.3.0rc2_20070905: jars (and their classes) in "program/classes" are not available anymore ! http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=81445 for the Release Notes.

2007-09-05

Participants: Pavel Janik, Bettina Haberer, Martin Hollmichel, Uwe Luebbers, Heiner Rechtien, Ruediger Timm, Fridrich Strba, Kai Sommerfeld, Rene Engelhard

Release Status OOo 2.3

• all stoppers have been fixed and approved
• additional issue included because of undetected conflicts during integration( 24969, Presentation should play a sound file over more than one slide, impress130)
• upload of sources and installsets until Thursday noon, Sept. 6th
• it was agreed to shorten review time from 1 week to 6 days to ensure that we're able to react on issue in time before travel to OOoCon start. Estimated date for final bits will be on September 12th.
• Pavel hints on 81272 [FR] Calc help: lots of strings not translated, but it was agreed not to delay Release because of this.

2007-09-03

Participants: R. Bircher. Martin Damboldt, Pavel Janik, Bettina Haberer, Martin Hollmichel, Uwe Luebbers, Heiner Rechtien, Ruediger Timm, Fridrich Strba, Kai Sommerfeld, Rene Engelhard, Thorsten Ziehm

Release Status OOo 2.3

five candidates for stopping release

• Drawing DEFECT NEW P3 Lines disappear in Draw http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=81212, quite serious, analysis for potential fix expected by tuesday morning

• l10n DEFECT REOPENED P3 [DE] localisation21/Chart: missing translation in Axis Properties dialog http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=80591, should have if we'd do an m4

• Presentation DEFECT RESOLVED FIXED P3 Spellchecker finds errors in Masterpages. http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=81157, fix available in cws but causes another regression, further analysis needed, candidate for 2.3.1, more review time advised.

• Database access DEFECT NEW P1 Sun Report Builder extension causes OOG680_m3 to crash http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=81186, nice to have for Mac build, but Mac Alpha is ready to go with "know issues" if fix is not available soon. fs, pl, pjanik will have a look at this.

will have another meeting Tuesday, 4th, 11.30 am German time, for review of 81212 and 81157 to come to a decision if we're able to do a m4 respin on Wednesday, this would result in release on September 12th or 13th in time before OOoCon.

• Joost will upload new Russian builds because of a packaging error.

proposal for introducing OOo 3.x target

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Target_3x

• The propose meeting will scheduled by Martin H. in more detail, participation with at least one from QA, Dev and UserExperience is desired, Thorsten and Bettina will suggest participant for QA and UX, for Development Martin H. will contact Project Leads. Other participation will be on voluntary basis, final review of 2.x and 3.x issue will be in early October.

RE duties

SRC680_m227: Vladimir (vg) SRC680_m228: Kurt (kz) OOG680: Ruediger (rt)