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Apache OpenOffice 4.1.5 (AOO 4.1.5) is the next planned release of Apache OpenOffice.
Release Schedule
The release is planned for December 2017.
Release Progress and Volunteers
Code | Started | Finished | Status | Volunteers | Comments |
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| Appoint Release Manager | Jim Jagielski | ||||
| Propose string/localization updates | Ariel Constenla-Haile | ||||
| Propose dictionary updates | Matthias Seidel | ||||
| Select bugfixes and enhancements | All |
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| Decide on the proposed release blocker | Jim Jagielski | ||||
| Provide code for the selected bugfixes/enhancements | All | ||||
Build | Started | Finished | Status | Volunteers | Comments |
| Buildbots | - | - |  | - | Buildbots available for: Windows, Linux, FreeBSD. macOS still missing but not a blocker (we don't need a buildbot for OS X release builds) |
| Windows 32-bit builds | Matthias Seidel |
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| macOS 64-bit builds | Jim Jagielski | ||||
| Linux 32-bit and 64-bit builds | Jim Jagielski | ||||
| Source builds | Jim Jagielski | ||||
| Upload builds to ASF Dist server (dev area) | |||||
| Vote on Release Candidate | Jim Jagielski | ||||
| Go / No Go for the release (based on votes and comments) | Jim Jagielski | ||||
| Upload builds to SF mirrors | Andrea Pescetti | Copy requires just a few hours, with the normal rsync instructions shown; note: project name has changed since 4.1.2 and now the rsync target must be written as Make sure it's going into a "staged" drectory | |||
| Move builds to ASF Dist server (dist area) | Jim Jagielski | Jim forgot to warn Infra. Changed How to Cook a Release to better remind people. | |||
| Make sure builds are on the ASF Archive server | | Jim Jagielski | Hash files must not be stored on public servers but only on ASF servers | ||
QA | Started | Finished | Status | Volunteers | Comments |
| Generic QA | | All | |||
| Specific QA focused on the selected bugfixes/enhancements | | All | |||
Communication | Started | Finished | Status | Volunteers | Comments |
| Blog post: First status update and call for volunteers on dev@ mailing list | |||||
| Wiki: Prepare the Release Notes | Keith McKenna | Keith: Base note created via template Marcus: Further work, see here: Release Notes | |||
| Translation: Give participants a note so that they can create localized press release | Heads-Up sent to Joerg Schmidt (de) | Marcus Lange | Done by private mail | ||
| Announcement: Prepare Apache Press Release | Marcus Lange | Working together with Sally Khudairi @ Apache, based on Release Notes | |||
| Translation: Give participants a note so that they can create localized release notes | de: nl: |
| Done by private mails | ||
| Website: Update the main AOO test download page | Marcus Lange | Test if the download links are working (binaries, hash files, release notes, etc.) and the metadata (milestone, build, SVN rev., release date) are correct. | |||
| Website: Update the main AOO download page | Marcus Lange | After the test was successful, do the changes in the Life-System. Test again that the links are working and the metadata is correct. | |||
| Website: Update the project's AOO pages: main and download | Marcus Lange | This is the https://openoffice.apache.org/ website. Test again that the links are working and the metadata is correct. | |||
| Website: Link top bar hint to the blog post | Matthias Seidel | Here the large blue headline with "Apache OpenOffice X.Y.Z released" is meant. | |||
| Website: Update the ASF project information | Marcus Lange | The DOAP RDF data needs to be updated. | |||
| Sourceforge: Update to "Latest Version" | Marcus Lange | Set the attribute "Latest Version" to all full installation files for every platform | |||
| Blog post: Write the announcement to the AOO blog | Marcus Lange | ||||
| Announcement: Write official announcement for announce@apache.openoffice.org | Marcus Lange | ||||
| Announcement: Copy the official announcement for announce@apache.org | Marcus Lange | Important | |||
| Forward the announcement to dev@ | Marcus Lange | ||||
| Update Feed: New check.Update for the aoo413 area | Users of AOO 4.0 - 4.1.4 will receive update notification, macOS is temporarily disabled. | Andrea Pescetti | The update notification will create a high load on the mirror servers as a lot of users will then update their AOO installation. This must be avoided. Therefore this task has to be done always some days after the release. | ||
Go-Live | Started | Finished | Status | Volunteers | Comments |
| The release is live | All |
Stay Informed
The best channels for accurate information about the release progress are:
- The development mailing list archives
- The Apache OpenOffice official blog
- The Subversion branch where the development is actually done