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Subject: RE: [DISCUSS][VOTE] Release Apache OpenOffice 3.4 (incubating) RC1
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 13:22:06 -0700
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My oversight:

There is a consolidated link to all of the QA locations for the Release =
Candidate at
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Quality_Assurance#Apache_OpenOf=
fice_3.4>.

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From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:orcmid@apache.org]=20

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Subject: [DISCUSS][VOTE] Release Apache OpenOffice 3.4 (incubating) RC1

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PARTICIPATE IN QUALITY-ASSURANCE COVERAGE OF THE CANDIDATE

It is valuable to download the source code and confirm that binaries can =
be built.

It is valuable to download the binaries and confirm that they install =
properly under a variety of conditions.

It is especially valuable to verify functions and operations that are =
important to you as an user of OpenOffice.org who desires to use Apache =
OpenOffice 3.4 as an upgrade.  If this is your first try at testing a =
release in any way, all the better. =20

It is also useful to confirm whether the same problem reported by =
someone else is also occurring for others. =20

Rather than have many people conduct and confirm the same successes, it =
is useful for contributors to explore areas not previously reported on.  =
It is particularly valuable to examine areas where there have been =
difficulties in the past to see if there is any change: improvement or =
degradation.

Lily Zhao, Oliver-Rainer Wittman, and others have created wiki pages =
that can be used to help people organize their QA investigations and =
reports.

There is a general page on the Apache OpenOffice Community Wiki with a =
table for addition of results:
<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+3.4+RC+Build+Te=
st+Report>.  This is for general trials at installation and inspection =
of functions, rather than specific test cases.  To add to this table, a =
Community Wiki registration is required.

(Note: please use the page above for casual test reports, including of =
installation failures, rather than adding comments to the Release =
Candidate and Developer Snapshot pages.  Help us collect these in a =
small number of places.)

Test cases are defined on the OpenOffice.org Wiki at
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/QA/TestCases/>.  You can add =
or update test cases.  Registration on the OpenOffice.org Wiki =
(different than the Community Wiki) is required to update these pages.

Test results can be added on the OpenOffice.org Wiki at=20
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/QA/TestResults>.  Registration =
on the OpenOffice.org Wiki is required.  Editing is the same as for any =
MediaWiki installation, just like Wikipedia.


There is an overall Release-QA-Plan for background:
<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Release-QA-Plan>.

 - Dennis

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