[ANN] LibreOffice 3.6.0 ALPHA1 test builds available

Hi *,

for the upcoming new version 3.6.0, the first public ALPHA1 builds now
start to be available on pre-releases. This build is intended for alpha
and beta testers and will not be available on the mirrors or linked from
our web-site. As for the steps towards the 3.6.0 release, please refer
to our release plan timings here:

 http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan#3.6_release

Builds are now being uploaded to a public (but non-mirrored - so don't
spread news too widely!) place, as soon as they're available. Grab
them here:

 http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/pre-releases/

If you've a bit of time, please give them a try & report bugs not yet in
bugzilla. The first beta release is planned for after the feature freeze
that will happen on 4th of June 2012.


Thanks a lot for your help,

Fridrich
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Fridrich Strba schrieb:

> for the upcoming new version 3.6.0, the first public ALPHA1

Hi,

did we already Branch to 3.6 or is this only a "very complete" Master Build?

To be honest: I will not use that version for intensive tests (= "real
life work"), because of "[Bug 50344] Basic Macro will not run because of
missing Java" and "[Bug 50344] Basic Macro will not run because of
missing Java" I only can do some smaller tests with it.

Best regards

Rainer
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On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 18:55 +0200, Rainer Bielefeld wrote:
> Fridrich Strba schrieb:
>
> > for the upcoming new version 3.6.0, the first public ALPHA1
>
> Hi,
>
> did we already Branch to 3.6 or is this only a "very complete" Master Build?

It is from master, checkout from Thursday morning. The only advantage
over daily build is that it provides all localizations. In addition, it
is built on the same machine and uses the same configure switches that
will be used for official builds. Note that it is dev build like the
daily builds. We will switch to release names during rc phase.

> To be honest: I will not use that version for intensive tests (= "real
> life work"), because of "[Bug 50344] Basic Macro will not run because of
> missing Java" and "[Bug 50344] Basic Macro will not run because of
> missing Java" I only can do some smaller tests with it.

Fair enough.

Best regards,
Petr

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Hi,

first obvious thing I notice on Windows is the menu bar being glassed.
That wouldn't be a problem of itself (I'm used to that from Firefox)
if the font color used for the menu entries combined with the badly
done glow effect wasn't making the menu completely unreadable. This
needs a lot of polishing.
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Hi Rainer,
You write The Bug_50344 "Basic Macro" about. This error  is a duplicate of the bug_48946 (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48946). LibO-Dev_3.6.0alpha1 released without removal of this stop error.
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Hi Rainer,
You write The Bug_50344 "Basic Macro" about. This error  is a duplicate of the bug_48946 (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48946). LibO-Dev_3.6.0alpha1 released without removal of this blocker error.
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Hi,

thanks for feedback. I know that Kendy pushed improvements in this area
last few days. It might be already solved in current daily build.

On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 19:39 +0200, khagaroth wrote:
> Hi,
>
> first obvious thing I notice on Windows is the menu bar being glassed.
> That wouldn't be a problem of itself (I'm used to that from Firefox)
> if the font color used for the menu entries combined with the badly
> done glow effect wasn't making the menu completely unreadable. This
> needs a lot of polishing.

Kendy, are you aware of this problem?


Best Regards,
Petr

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Hi,

On 2012-06-04 at 12:45 +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:

> > first obvious thing I notice on Windows is the menu bar being glassed.
> > That wouldn't be a problem of itself (I'm used to that from Firefox)
> > if the font color used for the menu entries combined with the badly
> > done glow effect wasn't making the menu completely unreadable. This
> > needs a lot of polishing.
>
> Kendy, are you aware of this problem?

Yes, this is still not finished, and what is visible in the Alpha is
still more a proof-of-concept than the final thing.  It was discussed at
the ESC as the "UI cleanups / improvements (Kendy)" point in "Known
features racing the freeze".

The final thing will probably have to go in as a late feature [or the
current looke reverted] later this week.  But I'm meeting with Mirek M.
tomorrow, and I'm sure he'll come up with something beautiful :-)

All the best,
Kendy

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On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 05:12:19PM +0200, Fridrich Strba wrote:
I also finished a very early prelease package of the LibreOffice-3.6.0~alpha1.
It is:

 - i386 only
 - in https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/libreoffice-prereleases/
 - totally untested
 - I had to disable smoketest to finish it
 - will eat your cat and sacrifice your children to Zul
 - if you throw valueable data at it or install it on a productive system and
   complain about dataloss, I will mock you in public for it ;)
 - if you file bugs however, thats of course most welcome!
 - see:
   - http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2012/06/03/new-and-changed-features-experience-and-test-them-now/
   - http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2012/05/11/new-and-changed-functions-you-can-experience-and-test-them-now/
   for things to test and try out

To test this:
 - install Ubuntu 12.04 in a VMWare/VirtualBox
 - sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-prereleases
 - sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libreoffice libreoffice-gnome

Dont use this on productive machines!

Best,

Bjoern
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On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 10:33:53AM +0200, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote:
>  - totally untested

Indeed -- I will need to fix some dependencies to make in install cleanly. So,
hold on for a bit until that is fixed.

Best,

Bjoern
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On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 11:16:15AM +0200, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote:
> Indeed -- I will need to fix some dependencies to make in install cleanly. So,
> hold on for a bit until that is fixed.

LibreOffice-3.6.0~alpha1~0ubuntu1~precise1~ppa4 from that PPA should now give
you a base for testing. All of the above warnings still apply.

Best,

Bjoern
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