OpenOffice.org general planning session
OpenOffice.org planning session
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Sebastien Bacher
- Priority:
- Medium
- Drafter:
- None
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for maverick
- Implementation:
- Implemented
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Chris Cheney
- Completed by
- Martin Pitt
Whiteboard
-Copy/paste issues - DavidBensimon
-Performance issues on entry-level hardware - DavidBensimon
-Implement/Utilize bug handling scripts - ChrisCheney
OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 will most likely be the version shipped with Maverick as 3.3 has not branched yet and it takes on average 5 months to stabilize before an upstream release, its only 4 months until Feature Freeze now and there is no estimate of when it will branch. (2010-04-27)
Oracle expected to slow down OpenOffice development.
* It's difficult to follow a project with 50+ mailing lists.
* Large features suddenly appear in branches without discussion.
Ubuntu's position: it would be far better for Oracle and Novell (Go-oo) to
combine their code in an effective way, and that would resolve our dilemma
better than the "beauty contest" that we have right now.
Why Ubuntu uses the ooo-build:
* Ubuntu has focused on packaging and integration of OO on the desktop.
* Not interested in developing new features ourselves.
* Would like OO.o project to adopt recent build tools; outdated build environment
is painful.
* With the ARM port, we've seen that OO.o upstream was not willing/able to
help. Upstream should help with porting effort.
* debian uses go-oo build, and it's a major chunk of work for Ubuntu not to
inherit this.
User Experience
* Fine-tune default configuration for UNE and Desktop
Work Items:
[ccheney] write script to gather apport-collect information from all new bugs: DONE
[ccheney] write script to request retest from all old bugs: DONE
[didrocks] package OOo 3.2.1 once available: DONE
OOo 3.2.1 SRU for Lucid: TODO
integrate menu UNE work from DX team once available: TODO
[djsiegel] work with ccheney on paper cuts: TODO
work with djsiegel on paper cuts: TODO