On 4/9/14 5:20 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> On Apr 9, 2014, at 8:46 AM, "Jürgen Schmidt" <jogischm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> We found a new showstopper 124639 and have to prepare a new RC 3. >> > > IMHO it would be best if, in such cases, the Release Manager formally > propose to end the previous vote. This reinforces the fact that the > PMC decides when a vote fails or not. > > An easy way to do this is to send a note like, "I propose to cancel > the current vote because <insert reasons>. If there are no objections > the vote is canceled" > > That gives the opportunity for someone to object. In that case the > vote would continue.
Objection is possible at any time but to me it is clear that we don't want release with existing critical showstopper. And of course we clearly differentiate between issues that are edge cases for one platform only, issues that are reproducible on all platforms and are crashes or regressions or issues less critical but requested as showstopper and where a fix is in place. Juergen > > -Rob > > > > >> But nevertheless we found several showstopper issues late in RC builds. >> Even in code that is in the product since December last year. >> >> I would like to invite all volunteers to test the current available RC2 >> more intensive and report potential problems. >> >> A new RC 3 build will be prepared later this week. >> >> Juergen >> >> >>> On 4/8/14 11:00 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> this is a call for vote on releasing the available release candidate >>> (RC2) as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0. >>> >>> Apache OpenOffice 4.1 is a minor update with many bugfixes and at least >>> 2 major improvements. It's the first version where we have the >>> iAccessibility2 support integrated and available. A very huge step >>> forward to reach and better support disabled users especially on >>> Windows. The second improvement is the switch to 64 bit on MacOS. A long >>> and overdue "must do" shift forward to support newer APIs (replace >>> deprecated APIs) and platforms on MacOS. >>> And we can provide again more complete UI translations and have now >>> support for 38 languages. New languages for this release compared to >>> 4.0.1 are Bulgarian, Danish, Hebrew, Hindi, Norwegian Bokmal and Thai. >>> >>> Apache OpenOffice 4.1 will be a further key milestone to continue the >>> success of OpenOffice. >>> >>> An overview of the integrated release issues can be found under: >>> >>> http://people.apache.org/~jsc/milestones/4.1.0-rc2/AOO4.1.0_RC2_fixes.html >>> >>> The RC2 fixed 4 further problems: >>> [1] https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id4599 >>> [2] https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id4607 >>> [3] https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id4509 >>> [4] https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id4394 >>> >>> The release candidate artifacts (1) (source release, as well as binary >>> releases for 38 languages) and further information how to verify and >>> review Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 can be found on the following wiki page: >>> >>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds >>> >>> The RC is based on the release branch AOO410, revision 1585426! And a >>> fresh and clean RAT scan output of this revision can be found under >>> >>> http://people.apache.org/~jsc/milestones/4.1.0-rc2/AOO4.1.0_RAT_Scan.html >>> >>> Please vote on releasing this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 >>> >>> The vote starts now and will be open until: >>> >>> Friday, 11 April: 2014-04-11 11:00am UTC+2. >>> >>> But we invite all people to vote (non binding) on this RC. We would like >>> to provide a release that is supported by the majority of our project >>> members. >>> >>> [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 >>> [ ] 0 Don't care >>> [ ] -1 Do not release this package because... >>> >>> >>> >>> (1) the upload for the Linux artifacts is still ongoing, expected to be >>> available in 2-3 hours. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: qa-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: qa-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
