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 Final (88888)
  • http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=92167
  • http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=92147 Dictionaries/Languagepacks
  • branch off for OOo 3.0 Final around July 7th (OOO300)
  • review translation schedule

• Review of issues for OOo 3.1
  • first integration for 3.1 July 10th

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

2008-07-21

Participants: Rene Engelhard, Mechtilde Stehmann, Fridrich Strba, Joost Andrae, Stefan Baltzer, Uwe Luebbers, Kazunari Hirano, Sophie Gautier, Chris Cheney, Simon Wilper, Rafaella Braconi, Hristo Simeonov Hristov, Jens-Heiner Rechtien, Ruediger Timm, Thorsten Ziehm

OOo 3.0 status

Review of 3.0 release blocker issue list

• discussion about 91907
• discussion about 89095
• discussion about 90395
• discussion about 91913
• discussion about OpenOffice3 CVS alias (OpenOffice 2 alias is still in use)
• DEV300_m26 brought new strings
  • a discussion started about having a new translation deadline
• A discussion started about providing additional platforms for CWS builds (Vista64, Linux-x64, Solaris 64 bit)

RE duties this week

• DEV300_m27 will be done by Oliver Bolte (obo)
  

Upload duties this week

• DEV300_m26 Marcus Lange
  
• DEV300_m27 Marcus Lange
  

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ReleaseStatus_Minutes_2008-07-21_IRC_log

2008-07-14

Participants: Rene Engelhard, Mechtilde Stehmann, Fridrich Strba, Martin Hollmichel, Joost Andrae, Stefan Baltzer, Uwe Luebbers, Martin Damboldt, Bettina Haberer, Kazunari Hirano, Marc Neumann, Kai Ahrens, Jaqueline Rahemipour

OOo 3.0 Beta 2 status

• 64 Bit Linux links do not work yet
  
• Marketing can be notified regarding the announcement of 3.0 Beta 2
  

OOo 3.0 status

Review of 3.0 release blocker issue list

• there are about 30 open cws and a couple of stoppers raised
  
• last regular integration of cws was scheduled for July 18th but timeline cannot be kept
  
• timeline will change:
  
  • first rc August 15th
    
  • and release September 16th
    

RE duties this week

• DEV300_m25 will be done by Ruediger Timm (rt)
  
• next build will be done by Ivo Hinkelmann (ihi)
  

Upload duties this week

• DEV300_m25 Joost Andrae (ja)
  

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ReleaseStatus_Minutes_2008-07-14_IRC_log

2008-07-07

Participants: Ruediger Timm, Rene Engelhard, Mechtilde Stehmann, Fridrich Strba, Martin Hollmichel, Joost Andrae, Stefan Baltzer, Hristo Simeonov Hristov, Chris Cheney, Jens-Heiner Rechtien, Raphael Bircher, Uwe Luebbers, Martin Damboldt, Marcus Lange, Marc Neumann, Andreas Schluens, Sophie Gautier, Bettina Haberer, Mathias Bauer

OOo 3.0 status

Review of Beta blocker issues

• (hopefully) the last masterfix has been integrated
  
• discussion of issue 87244
  
• discussion about CWS accelerators01 (will get nominated if Thorsten Martens approves it)

RE duties this week

• DEV300 will be done by Ivo Hinkelmann (ihi)
  
• BEB300_m3 will be done by Oliver Bolte (obo)
  
• BEB300_m4 (if built) will be done by Ruediger Timm (rt)
  

Upload duties this week

• DEV300_m23: Marcus Lange (mla)
  
• BEB300_m3: Joost Andrae (ja)
  

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ReleaseStatus_Minutes_2008-07-07_IRC_log

2008-06-30

Participants: Ruediger Timm, Rene Engelhard, Mechtilde Stehmann, Fridrich Strba, Martin Hollmichel, Joost Andrae, Stefan Baltzer, Hristo Simeonov Hristov, Chris Cheney, Jens-Heiner Rechtien, Raphael Bircher, Uwe Luebbers, xiuzhi, Martin Damboldt, Bettina Haberer, Kai Ahrens, Marcus Lange

OOo 3.0 status

Review of Beta blocker issues
New issues:

• 90995
  
• 90515
  
• 88880
  

We are heading July 9th for release Beta 2

Review of issues for 3.0 Final (88888)


Discussion about latest translation related changes (eg. README)

• changes besides README changes are candidates to be moved to 3.1 target.

OOo 3.1 status

• planned branch off for OOo 3.1 will be begin of next week
  
  • planned branch off not before BEB300 is finished
• feature freeze end of November 2008
  

RE duties this week

• DEV300 will be done by Vladimir Glazunov (vg)
  
• BEB300_m2 will be done by Oliver Bolte (obo)
  

Upload duties this week

• DEV300_m22: Marcus Lange (mla)
  

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ReleaseStatus_Minutes_2008-06-30_IRC_log

2008-06-23

Participants: Ruediger Timm, Rene Engelhard, Mechtilde Stehmann, Fridrich Strba, Martin Hollmichel, Joost Andrae, Stefan Baltzer, Bettina Haberer, Hristo Simeonov Hristov, Chris Cheney, Jens-Heiner Rechtien, Raphael Bircher, Uwe Luebbers

OOo 3.0 status

• we are going to prepare 3.0 Beta 2 now
• BEB300 will branch of DEV300_m21
  • we're waiting for some more dicts as extensions
  • we will take impress144
  • and we also will have a bug fixing round for localization issue starting around July 4th

RE duties this week

• DEV300 will be done by Kurt Zenker (kz)
• BEB300 will be done by Oliver Bolte (obo)

Upload duties this week

• DEV300_m21: Marcus Lange (mla)

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ReleaseStatus_Minutes_2008-06-23_IRC_log

2008-06-16

Participants: Ruediger Timm, Rene Engelhard, Marc Neumann, Mechtilde Stehmann, Fridrich Strba, Martin Hollmichel, Joost Andrae, Stefan Baltzer, Bettina Haberer, Hristo Simeonov Hristov, Chris Cheney, Marcus Lange, xiuzhi, Thorsten Ziehm, Pavel Janik, Kai Ahrens, Jens-Heiner Rechtien, mod

OOo 2.4.1 status

• 2.4.1 has been released on 2008-06-10
• most localizations are released

OOo 3.0 status

• Martin Hollmichel will add a meta issue for Beta 2 issues
• we now have about 450 open issues with 3.0 target but the amount of issue per person now seems to be reasonable
• CWS writer2latexexternal accepted
• all Beta2 relevant cws should be finished until thursday (19th)
• afterwards we may need to branch off a BEB300 (a special Beta 2 branch will be tried to be avoided)
• branching off for OOO300 would be around July 5th
• talked about issue 90468

RE duties this week

• DEV300_m20: Ruediger Timm (rt)

Upload duties this week

• DEV300_m20: Marcus Lange (mla)

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ReleaseStatus_Minutes_2008-06-16_IRC_log

2008-06-09

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, Kai Ahrens, Chris Cheney

OOo 2.4.1 status

• 2.4.1 will be released on 2008-06-10

OOo 3.0 status

• Martin Hollmichel will add a meta issue for Beta 2 issues
• code freeze for Beta2 has passed
• still in progress:
  • dictionaries provided as extensions
  • notes5
  • swlists01
  • PDF-import, presenter console should be available with the beta release
• Martin Hollmichel plans to upload a snapshot of PDF Import today

RE duties this week

• DEV300_m19: Ivo Hinkelmann (ihi)

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ReleaseStatus_Minutes_2008-06-09_IRC_log

2008-06-02

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, Martin Damboldt, Chris Cheney, Sophie Gautier, Kai Ahrens, Cor Nouws, mod

OOo 2.4.1 status

2.4.1 blockers have been discussed

• 2.4.1rc2 has been uploaded/announced last friday/saturday
  
• there's not enough space on the mirrors.
  
• discussed issue 87690 and issue 72994
  
• we can start release process for 2.4.1
  

OOo 3.0 status

3.0 Beta blocker issues have been discussed
3.0 Beta review and Beta 2 release will be begin of July

 final translation delivery for 3.0 final will be begin of June
 another string bugfix import end of July

3.0 Action Items

 Office2007 XML filter

 a11y issues

 P1, P2, regressions

 some other items like dictionaries

 if there are other good reason that requires the cws to go into 3.0, please argue in EIS

 OOO300 and DEV310 will be opened quite soon

RE duties this week

• DEV300_m16: Vladimir Glazunov (vg)
  

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ReleaseStatus_Minutes_2008-06-02_IRC_log

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)

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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)

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ReleaseStatus_Minutes_2008-05-05_IRC_log