On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 19:22 -0500, Tony Yarusso wrote: > On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 11:30 +0530, Vishal Rao wrote: > >> What is the latest status of the possibility of including OOo 3 and FF > >> 3.1 by default in Intrepid? > > > > OpenOffice.org 3.0 will be in Intrepid but it is looking like it will > > not be as the primary version that is installed by default. The release > > candidate and final dates for OOo 3 were originally set to Jul 25th and > > Sep 2 respectively, but OOo has slipped a lot from those dates. OOo > > 3.0rc1 is still not released yet, it is currently expected to be > > released on Sept 8 which puts the final release around Oct 20. That > > doesn't leave enough time to make it even marginally stable, since that > > would be only 3 days before the Intrepid release candidate. > > > > If OpenOffice.org had been able to keep closer to their originally > > stated schedules then this problem wouldn't have occurred. > > > > Chris > > Now that RC2 has been out a couple of days, and that > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOoRelease30 states that they > are currently shooting for final release on Oct. 7 rather than 20, is > there any news on this front? Granted, it's still very tight, but at > least looks more promising. Meanwhile, default or not, I still don't > see OOo3 packaged and in the Intrepid repos at all, which scares me a > lot. Any progress on that portion?
I will hopefully have OOo 3.0.0~rc2 uploaded to the PPA by later today. I am working on a few bugs still before uploading it. Chris -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
