[RESULT][VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 Beta (RC)

[Jürgen Schmidt <jo...@gmail.com>]

The vote period to release the AOO 4.1.0 Beta RC (based on release
branch AOO410, revision 1573601) as Apache OpenOffice 4.1 Beta has ended.

The ballot results in 26 votes, 26 +1 votes including 11 binding PMC
member votes.

3 binding +1 votes are necessary for the release. That means the ballot
closed successful to release the RC as AOO 4.1 Beta.


Vote tally

+1 Edwin Sharp
+1 Olaf Felka  (binding)
+1 Sandyha Sivakumar
+1 Steve Yin
+1 Herbert Duerr (binding)
+1 Andre Fischer (binding)
+1 Oliver Rainer Wittmann (binding)
+1 Kazunari Hirano
+1 V Stuart Foote
+1 Juergen Schmidt (binding)
+1 Josef Latt
+1 Jan Iversen (binding)
+1 Raphael Bircher (binding)
+1 Aivaras Stepukonis
+1 tx99h4 (??)
+1 Николай Нинков
+1 Dirk Groskamp
+1 Jeongkyu Kim
+1 Markus Lange (binding)
+1 Andrea Pescetti (binding)
+1 Regina Henschel (binding)
+1 Kay Schenk (binding)
+1 Dave Barton
+1 Rory O'Farrell
+1 Sylvain Denis
+1 Shengfeng Liu



On 3/6/14 9:55 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> this is a call for vote on releasing the available release candidate
> (RC) as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 Beta. The Beta release is intended to
> reach more early adopters and to receive more valuable feedback to
> improve potentially critical areas for the final release.
> 
> 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 37 languages. New languages for this release compared to
> 4.0.1 are Bulgarian, Danish, Hindi, Norwegian Bokmal and Thai.
> 
> Apache OpenOffice 4.1 will be a further key milestone to continue the
> success of OpenOffice.
> 
> An overview of release issues can be found under:
> 
> http://people.apache.org/~jsc/developer-snapshots/snapshot/AOO4.1.0_Beta_fixes.html
> 
> The release candidate artifacts (1) (source release, as well as binary
> releases for 37 languages) and further information how to verify and
> review Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 Beta 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 1573601! And a
> fresh and clean RAT scan output of this revision can be found under
> 
> http://people.apache.org/~jsc/developer-snapshots/snapshot/AOO4.1.0_RAT_Scan.html
> 
> Please vote on releasing this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 Beta
> 
> The vote starts now and will be open until:
> 
>    Sunday evening, 9 March: 2014-03-09 11:00pm UTC.
> 
> 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 Beta
>    [ ]  0 Don't care
>    [ ] -1 Do not release this package because...
> 
> 
> 
> (1) the upload for the Linux 32 bit artifacts is still ongoing, but 64
> bit is already available.
> 


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