[Libreoffice] Release criteria

[Sophie Gautier]

Hi Andrea, all,
On 05/12/2010 20:39, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> On 26/11/2010 Petr Mladek wrote:
>> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Release_Criteria
>> Feel free to update it or propose improvements. Especially, I am not
>> sure about bugs in localizations.
>
> So a major change with respect to the OpenOffice.org release process
> would be that no explicit approval is needed for localized versions.

Imho, this should still be needed. Manuals tests are currently developed 
on the wiki and they should be run on each language for approval of the 
build to be elected as stable.
>
> This is probably related to the multi-language build model, where you
> don't want to wait for 20 or so explicit approvals in order to release
> the English version, but still distributing possibly untested software
> does not seem very good to me: I did see cases at OpenOffice.org where
> only one localized version would not start, or would have blocking
> issues.

I agree and this is why the non tested build were left on RC state. We 
should not change this or we will miss some quality.
>
> If you need very recent examples, in the OOo 3.3 release cycle at least
> two localization-specific stoppers were found and fixed upstream in
> OpenOffice.org and thus ported to LibreOffice too:
> http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=115232 [IT only]
> http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=115774 [FR only]

Kind regards
Sophie