[Libreoffice-qa] Major Release Checklist

[Cor Nouws]

Hi Sophie,

Sophie Gautier wrote (21-12-13 22:23)
>> There is no or little difference between what we call major and minor.
>> So I suggest to treat them the same.
>>
>> Then as for when to have a bug hunt session, I think the goal is to get
>> _many_ people test early. Therefore I would suggest to do it _early_
>> with beta1 or beta2.
>> The l10n teams can ask people in their community to test the RC1 or RC2
> 
> RC1 doesn't contain all the translations as string freeze is due at this
> time.  The only version we get to check our work is RC2.

I know, and you wrote that before too.

>> on l10n issues, so that those can be fixed in RC3.
> 
> Hum, RC3 is final so it's considering that we don't need to test l10n
> versions. As you said bug hunting is to attract more people and I would
> like to give this chance to NL projects too.
> But I understand that testing versions before might be more important

Yes, l10n testing is important too.
But when bughunt sessions are done at RC2, it can be easily too late to
fix issues found in x.y.0.
Therefore: get many people test early (beta1, 2) for general testing,
and special testing for l10n in RC2.

regards,
Cor

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