[Libreoffice-qa] Request hold 3.6.3 final release for fdo#53474 - Windows Accessibility

[Michael Meeks]

On Fri, 2012-10-26 at 08:29 -0700, V Stuart Foote wrote:
> Problems with the daily TinderBox builds took the better  part of  two weeks 
> to get  the initial commit for this issue tested.  I had to ask to have it
> pushed down on  the -3-6 build  for testing because there has not been a viable
> Windows  build  of master complete in close to a month, Tinderbox 16 does
> not count as it is a minimal build.

	Yes - that is a huge problem. David is working on fixing install issues
incrementally in:

	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55290

	Are there live build issues causing grief as well ?

> Seems that if we are going to solicit more  testing and bug reporting
> against the Windows builds of master the MSVC and MinGW TinderBoxes need
> to be more  closely monitored and assistance rendered to assure viable
> testing can occur.

	True enough; we've been watching this one for a while.

On Fri, 2012-10-26 at 21:18 +0200, Olav Dahlum wrote:
> Either way, this have to be addressed ASAP. I need the 3.6 series for
> accessibility tests with Freedom Scientific JAWS and others. The
> testing is related to usage scenarios for members of the Norwegian
> Association of the Blind and Partially Sighted, so it's important.

	In general, saying "you -have- to do XYZ" is not a winning strategy for
communicating with volunteers :-) No doubt, if we have a fix in the -3-6
branch, then a windows build will eventually arrive here:

http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/Win-x86_9-Voreppe/libreoffice-3-6/current/

	And you can do your testing of course. In the meantime, please be
patient. Nobody is obliged to fix your specific bugs ahead of anyone
else's bugs - they do it because they care about the project and a11y.

	If you need bugs fixed on your schedule, that's fine - one great way to
do that is to contract development support from eg. Lanedo, or RedHat,
or Canonical or ... - and then you have a neck to choke :-)

	Anyhow - it's great to have a11y testing going on - that is much
appreciated.

	Thanks !

		Michael.

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