ReleaseStatus Minutes

On every Monday 3pm German time (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=6&day=2&year=2008&hour=15&min=0&sec=0&p1=307) there is a meeting (#oooreleases on irc.freenode.net) to review the status for the next releases.

Agenda for next meeting

• Review of issues for 3.0 Beta (887736)
  • provide dictionaries as extensions
  • discussion about a possible Beta Refresh (perhaps end of June) (Thorsten Ziehm)
• Review of issues for OOo 2.4.1 (88258)
• possible schedule of OOo 2.4.1, OOo 2.4.x

• proposal: modified taskhandling: IssueHandling (postponed after quarterly review meeting has been established)

2008-05-26

Participants: Ruediger Timm, Rene Engelhard, Mechtilde Stehmann, Fridrich Strba, Martin Hollmichel, Uwe Luebbers, Martin Damboldt, Pavel Janik, Kai Ahrens,

OOo 2.4.1 status

• upload of rc until Wednesday May 28th
• Mechtilde will use Pavels build for testing up to that time
• estimated Release: June 4th

OOo 3.0 Beta review

There are about 250 issues reported on 3.0 beta. The most voted issues were:

• OpenOffice.org 3 Windows 98/ME support: We will not continue the support of Windows98/ME with the current available resources. volunteers are invited to contribute any code to the project and offer support for that platform.
• Lost data while switching between sheets: Has not been confirmed yet, Mechtilde can't confirm on Linux, Pavel to ask on ooo_macport list for confirmation
• Command + Space should not be registered as a application ...: to be confirmed
• OOo 3.0 beta install causes BSOD: need more information
• Impress freezes when saving a presentation. need to be confirmed
• Fontwork alignment: has 3.0 target

review of OOo_3_Beta_feedback#bugs

• File -> Save As in Vista SP1 broken => http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=87244 : will be fixed with Beta2
• MS Office 2007 XML filter issues : will be incrementally improved with Beta2 and 3.0 Final
• Impress drag text box not working http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=89484 ,-> 87291 3.0 target, can we fix it for Beta2
• Strange 600% limitation in Chart2, when changing space width between rectangles , like on this Snapshot [1] : no comments on this issue
• [Mac Aqua] writer crashes opening word documents with comments inside issue 89243 : no comments on this issue

Martin also gives reference to thread regarding dictionaries as extensions, see http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=dev&by=thread&from=2056463 this was also not commented within the meeting.

OOo 3.0 issues

Mechtilde asks for Linux x86_64 builds, Martin: will be provided with regular DEV300 Developer snapshots: AI for Joost.

RE Duties

DEV300 this week: Oliver (obo)

2008-05-19

Participants: Ruediger Timm, Rene Engelhard, Marc Neumann, Mechtilde Stehmann, Fridrich Strba, Martin Hollmichel, Uwe Luebbers, Joost Andrae, Stefan Baltzer, Bettina Haberer, Jens Heiner Rechtien, Hristo Simeonov Hristov, Joerg Jahnke, Martin Damboldt, Pavel Janik, Thorsten Ziehm, Kai Ahrens, Christian Guenther, Juergen Schmidt, Eric Savary

OOo 2.4.1 status

2.4.1 blockers have been discussed
Martin Damboldt asked to get issue 89096 integrated.

OOo 3.0 status

3.0 Beta blocker issues have been discussed
There are more than 1000 open issue 7 weeks before code freeze. Martin Hollmichel stated that we will not able to fix all of them in time for 3.0. He proposed to retarget P3-P5 issues with no keyword set to 3.x to be able to concentrate on the important bugs. Pavel suggested to call first for fixing all the bugs asap and think about retargeting in a second step. Martin to send out call to developers and QA to fix 3.0 issues.

Juergen Schmidt asked for an exception to have the new Extension Manager UI integrated
"Beta Refresh" is planned for end of June. The release status meeting agreed to integrate this into 3.0 since the extensions became quite popular. word count is about a few hundred words, given the approval of Rafaella we are going to integrate into 3.0

The branch for OOo 3.0 Beta 2 will be called OOO300 since it will be continued until OOo 3.0 Final release. The development codeline for OOo 3.1 will then be open with begin of June. RE raised their concerns about branching too early, this only works well if main part of work will really be done for 3.1 codeline, this seems unlikely to happen. Martin points out that reducing of bug count is indeed quite important to make this work.

RE duties this week

DEV300: Kurt Zenker (kz)
OOH680:
Ivo Hinkelmann (ihi)

Full IRC log

ReleaseStatus_Minutes_2008-05-19_IRC_log

2008-05-05

Participants: Ruediger Timm, Rene Engelhard, Marc Neumann, Volker Merschmann, Mechtilde Stehmann, Fridrich Strba, Martin Hollmichel, Uwe Luebbers, Joost Andrae, Stefan Baltzer, Bettina Haberer, Jens Heiner Rechtien

OOo 2.4.1 status

2.4.1 blockers have been discussed

OOo 3.0 status

3.0 Beta blocker issues have been discussed
BEA300_m2 build will be taken as OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta. Joost will upload the bits soon. Planned release will be May 7th.

RE duties this week

DEV300: Kurt Zenker (kz)
OOH680: Ruediger Timm (rt)

Full IRC log

ReleaseStatus_Minutes_2008-05-05_IRC_log