2008 Q2 Review of Porting Project

Review of the OpenOffice.org Porting project (April 2008)

Review schedule

• start of review: April 15th
• review of collected issues: April 22th, 3pm UTC, #oooporting on freenode
• start of sorting priorities and assignments April 22th
• review of final list: April 29th, 3pm UTC, #oooporting on freenode

Status of the project

Open Task list for this review

• Mingw Port (what is the status, builds, build documentation)
• OS/2 Port (are all changes itegrated, providing builds)
• FreeBSD Ports
• Linux Ports (PPC, s390)

what are the most severe issues in the current release

• FreeBSD : ldap authentication crashes (78000)
• MacOSX : OpenOffice does not support standard Mac-style navigation keys (Option and Meta) [1]

which are the most requested (or needed) features (in the press, user forums, issues, other feedback)

• MacOSX port
  • Wish_list_for_Mac_OS_X_port (for more information: see the Aqua Roadmap)
• Port for Windows 64 bit

• Port to mobile devices
  • OOo mobile edition
  • Port for Palm OS
  • OpenOffice for PocketPC

short term planning

which defect needs to go into the next release

various MacOSX issues (see query)

which features will be worked on for the half year.

• include native MacOSX (Intel) build into regular release schedule, make this a primary platform (planned for 3.0 release)

• include Linux 64 bit build into regular release schedule, planned for 3.0 release

• stop support of Windows 98/ME platform, last supported code line is 2.4.x

mid/long term planning

which features/bugfixes needs to be addressed in the next two/three years

watch work on odftoolkit.openoffice.org for results which can be used for a solution on small devices. No assigned resources from the porting project at this time.

no plan to continue support Irix platform