OOoRelease242
Draft
This bugfix release is for fixing very important bugs. All issues with target "OOo 2.4.2" will be reviewed by the ReleaseStatus meeting. "Important issue" means that the issue gets considered as major regression to 2.4 release or has been defined as a "must have" by the release status meeting. There is the Meta issue 94185 to track the potential stoppers for release. If anyone would like to raise an issue for the release, please add the issue id of the issue you want to raise as dependent issue the the Meta Issue and drop a note on releases@openoffice.org, that and why you want to declare that issue as a stopper for releases.
- October October 9th 2008: code_freeze
- October 28th 2008: release
Release Plan for 2.4.2 release
Task | Who | Deadline | Comments |
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last cws integration for first RC / OOH680_mx | mh, RE | ||
release notes | mh, ja | development.openoffice.org/releases/2.4.0.html, development.openoffice.org/releases/2.4.1.html — 2.4.1 RC2 | |
Setup Guides | |||
Upload of RC builds | ja | full install sets for: en-US da de es fr it ja nl ko pl ru sv pt-BR zh-CN zh-TW gl
language packs for: af as-IN be-BY bg br bs ca cs da de dz el en-GB en-ZA es et fi fr ga gu he hi-IN hr hu it ja ka km ko lt mk ml-IN mr-IN nb ne nl nn nr ns or-IN pa-IN pl pt pt-BR rw sh sk sl sr ss st sv sw-TZ ta te-IN tg th ti-ER tr ts uk ur-IN ve vi xh zh-CN zh-TW zu | |
Trigger QA of final builds | ja | ||
Track Status of localized builds | ja | qatrack.services.openoffice.org | |
Publish status of automated GUI testing | wg | OOoRelease24AutomationTestMatrix | |
Update of 2.4.wrc pages for RC | ja | ||
QA of English RC builds | ja | ||
Update of SDK | ja | 2.4.0 SDK will stay | |
Update of URE | ja | 2.4.0 URE will stay | |
Update of SDK Release Notes and update of redirect page | ja | not necessary for this release | |
Update of URE Release Notes and update of redirect page | ja | not necessary for this release | |
Upload of src tarballs | ja | ||
msg to announce@ooo content | louis | ||
move RC to final | ja | ||
download pages | ja | ||
upload of solver tarballs | ja | no update of solver tarballs for this update release | |
notification of mirrors | ja | ||
Update of Bittorrents | (mike!) | ||
Update of P2P page | antbryan | ||
press kit update | jpmcc/lsp | ||
press release/alert | jpmcc | ||
homepage | louis | ||
release | all |
CWSs and issues for OOo 2.4.2 for OOo Wiki
Internal issue | IZ issue | Description | fixed in CWS | Severity |
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internal internal |
tdb tdb |
tdb tdb |
sjfixes07 | |
same as internal | i94585 | Mail Merge Wizard is changing values without any reason | c17v004 | usability |
same as internal | i63671 i73145 3.1 | Operations like insert, delete, resize, hide, show for rows, columns, cells must move notes to visible area | c16v003 | data not displayed |
internal | Merging cells must move notes to visible area | |||
same as internal | i50266 i85233 3.1 | Copy & paste of cells must move notes to visible area | ||
same as internal | i59745 3.1 | Sorting cells must move notes to visible area | ||
same as internal | i83729 3.1 | Do not allow to send notes to front or back | ||
same as internal | i54715 2.4.2 | Cell notes / Comment gets hidden in spreadsheet with split columns | ||
same as internal | i94685 | OOo OLE server is not usable on some systems | c10v004 | interoperability |
- | i85168 | Jump to cursor on loading document containing document statistics fields | c21v002 | usability |
same as internal | i94652 | System proxy setting leads to hanging OOo when copy & paste a website into a document | c07v020 | crash/hang |
internal | Numbering that has a bookmark is shown (but should not) when using Basic macro | |||
internal | After merging 2 paragraphs and saving the doc, an automatic page break is done for the new paragraph | changed doc layout | ||
same as internal | i94653 | Crash when printing with Lexmark printer | crash | |
internal | When inserting Writer doc with sections and bookmarks, bookmarks are wrongly applied in new doc when double-clicking in navigator | c07v019 | changed doc layout | |
same as internal | i94654 | XHTML-export : enumerations often restart erroneously at 1 | data loss after export | |
similar as internal | With fix for i94654 the export to XHTML leads to "Write error". | export | ||
internal | A widow control not applied anymore for large paragraph after reloading the doc | changed doc layout | ||
internal | i94656 | WW8: Loop opening document having a VERY long bullet list | crash, performance | |
internal | i90071 | display of charts with clipped data crashes office | chart28 | crash |
same as internal | i94663 | Destroyed view of Chart Data Table | chart33 | data not editable |
- | i94664 | Can't change Asian fonts in Charts | data loss | |
- | i94668 | X11: Wrong character mapping for some fonts | data not displayed | |
same as internal | i94666 | After pressing [Backspace] or [Delete], the document formatting gets incorrect | changed doc layout | |
- | i93298 | Calc 2.4.1 crashes when loading a .sxc file saved by Calc 3.0 beta2 | calcfix242 | crash |
internal | Columns in RTF format are lost when the file is inserted or the text is copy & pasted from MS Word into a new text doc | changed doc layout | ||
same as internal | i94808 | N + degree character is being separated at a line break | i18n46 | changed doc layout |
internal | Preparation of OOo 2.4.2 and SO8 U12 | native204 |
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