[Libreoffice-qa] End of the line for 3.3 family and regressions

[Pedro Lino]

Hi all

Looking at the Release Plan chart
http://tdfsc.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/libreoffice-versions.png
and wiki
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan
I guess version 3.3.4 is the end of the line for family 3.3.

This means that for many users (and especially for companies, which
only use the most stable build) the next version will (sometimes
forcefully :) ) be 3.4.5.

I think this carries (from a QA point of vue) a much heavier
responsibility and care than the change from 3.4.4 to 3.5.0 (which is
"experimental")

The planned release date for 3.4.5 is on January 11, 2012 and
apparently there won't be any Beta releases, it will jump directly to
RC1.

I urge everybody to make sure that EVERY regression detected from
3.3.x to 3.4.x is fixed/added to the 3.4 branch

E.g. A bug fix such as this
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42958
needs to be "cherry picked" to the 3.4 branch

I volunteer to do any checking (within my limited knowledge) on the
Windows x86 platform but someone with more experience needs to do an
exhaustive search on the Bug tracker (Rainer?)

Regards,
Pedro