How to do releases?

• A Guide to Release Management During Incubation has details for Apache requirements.

ToDo's for the first Apache OpenOffice release:

• create a EOL message for the binfilters
  • generate writing without too much and deep technical stuff
  • AOO 3.4 will be the last release with read/write support for the old binary file format
  • with the next release it will not be possible to read or write these kind of files
  • alternatives are:
    • use the XML-based ODF file formats for new files
    • convert all old files into the ODF-based formats
    • keep the AOO 3.4 release as long as no migration plan was setup
    • as fallback there are still older, non-Apache releases in the archive (link)