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  • hanya
  • Marco Pinto
  • Giuseppe Castegno
  • Regina Henschel
  • Andrea Pescetti
  • Yuri Dario
  • Armin LeGrand
  • hdu
  • jsc
  • Kay
  • davide
  • Damjan Jovanovic
  • Stefan Heinemann 
  • engstromea
  • truckman
  • pfg 
  • samalipraveena
    • Alexander Pyhalov

    Kay Schenk sent the calls.

    Useful links for QA tests (for people who have a Bugzilla account):

    Release blockers requested not yet processed: https://bz.apache.org/ooo/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&remaction=run&namedcmd=4.1.2_blocker_requested&sharer_id=7

    Release blockers approved and ported to AOO 4.1.2: https://bz.apache.org/ooo/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&remaction=run&namedcmd=4.1.2_approved_and_fixed&sharer_id=7

    Total approved release blockers (some not yet ported to AOO 4.1.2):  https://bz.apache.org/ooo/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&remaction=run&namedcmd=4.1.2_approved&sharer_id=7

    Code

    		StartedFinishedStatusVolunteers
    Appoint Release Manager  (tick)Andrea Pescetti is appointed Release Manager for OpenOffice 4.1.2.Patricia Shanahan was the only volunteer.
    Propose string/localization updates  (tick)OpenOffice Language changes are not being considered for 4.1.2 will be released in the same languages as version 4.1.1.

    Critical translation fixes, if any, will be backported from 4.2.0 for languages requesting them.

    3
    Propose dictionary updates  (tick)

    English dictionary: Marco Pinto contributed version 2015.08.01, integrated.

    English dictionary: Marco Pinto contributed version 2015.09.01, integrated.

    English dictionary: Marco Pinto contributed version 2015.10.01, integrated in RC3.

    Portuguese dictionary: Pedro asked to update the Portoguese dictionary,  integrated in RC3.See release notes for the list of updated dictionaries
    Select bugfixes and enhancements for OpenOffice 4.1.23  2015(tick)

    Anyone can propose a blocker either using the "4.1.2 3 Release Blocker" flag in Bugzilla or writing to the dev list.

    The following people helped by suggesting possible blocker bugs:

    Provide code for the selected bugfixes/enhancements Jan 2015 (tick)(tick) 

    Build

    		StartedFinishedStatusVolunteers
    Buildbots
         		 (tick)

    Volunteers: Gavin McDonald, Andrew Rist, Don Lewis 

    Buildbots available for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD. OS X still missing but not a blocker (we don't need a buildbot for OS X release builds).

    Windows builds  (tick)

    Jürgen Schmidt tested the build on the same systems used for building 4.1.1

    hrin provided Windows builds for several languages 

    OS X builds  (tick)Jürgen Schmidt tested the build on the same systems used for building 4.1.1 
    Linux builds  (tick)Jürgen Schmidt tested the build on the same systems used for building 4.1.1 
    Vote on Release Candidate(tick)

    VOTE was started on RC3 by Andrea Pescetti and passed.

    Tally sent to dev list on 27 October 2015.

    		    
    Upload builds to mirrors(tick)   

     Volunteers: Andrea Pescetti

    Copy requires just a few hours, with the normal rsync instructions shown at https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/File%20Management/ (project name is openofficeorg.mirror).

    Set new files as "Latest Version": done by Marcus Lange see http://s.apache.org/uaj

    Update Feed (new check.Update for aoo411 area – http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/updates-site/trunk/aoo411/) 08 Nov 2015  (tick)

     

    Suggest phased in approach with English as Phase I.

     

    QA

    		StartedFinishedStatusVolunteers
    Generic QA(tick)    
    Specific QA focused on 4.1.2 bugfixes/enhancements(tick)

    Bugs were verified fixed by:

    		    

    Communication

    		StartedFinishedStatusVolunteers
    Blog post: first status update and call for volunteers(tick)    Andrea Pescetti
    Blog posts: announcement(tick)    Andrea Pescetti / Marcus Lange
    Website: link top bar to 4.1.2 blog post(tick)    Andrea Pescetti / Marcus Lange
    Website: link announcements to 4.1.2 blog posts(tick)    Andrea Pescetti / Marcus Lange
    Wiki: prepare Release Notes (tick)

    Keith McKenna

    german release-notes prepared - Jörg Schmidt

    Translated by volunteers into:

    • Dutch
    • Italian
    • German
    • Portuguese
    • Russian
    		   
    Website: update download pages(tick)    Marcus Lange
    Press: prepare press release / announcement   (tick)Based on Release Notes

    Release Notes

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