wrong component

This page is part of the porting project.
Is it still useful or is it obsolete since Mac versions are released together
with other platforms?

> Is it still useful or is it obsolete since Mac versions are released together with other platforms?

Only the Aqua-Intel versions are released together with the other platforms, the Aqua-PPC versions are 
not. They are not even built with the other versions, which is quite unfortunate IMHO. Thanks maho 
provides excellent builds for Aqua-PPC. Maybe the normal download pages should point to maho's builds 
directly?

Linking the untested release candidate as "final release" from
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/aqua-PPC.html is wrong. There's no
official release available for version 3.1.1. For version 3.1.0 there is a build
which is currently distributing through the mirror network. Unfortunately the
Bouncer link
http://openoffice.bouncer.osuosl.org/?product=OpenOffice.org&os=macosxppc&lang=en-US&version=3.1.0
still does not resolve.

btw. this build has been provided and release tested by cmc

Regarding the en-US MacOSXPPC build I was wrong because there was a release of
the en-US LinuxPPC build for 3.1.0 instead...

hdu: ja is right, there is no final released version of an Aqua PPC build.
Please modify the headline and first sentence on the porting website as it is
indeed not correct. Example:

"OpenOffice.org Aqua Release Candidate

For OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 there is a Release Candidate 2 available since August
28th, 2009."

Thanks

target

According to the matrix in http://download.openoffice.org/other.html the latest officially distributed 
version of PPC as of today would be OOoX11 2.4.0. This ancient build also the lastest PPC-version 
available from the OOo website. It should be noted that these pre-Aqua versions and pre-OOo3 
versions are rather obsoleted.

Should the porting page point to this embarrassingly old release? OOo311-rcX are vastly better, but are 
not available anywhere directly from a stable URL on the OOo website. The best solution is for program 
managers, release managers and QA to work with the community the get a recent version approved and 
uploaded to a stable location on the OOo website.

@mla: please provide the URL of that page inside the OOo-domain when it becomes available

hdu: I think it is pretty clear that a RC is not a final and approved version.
As long as we haven't such a build, the website has to be modified as I told in
last comment. Please do so.

Everything else is a task for the future and cannot be solved in short time.

@mla: the original problem in this issue is that the link does not work directly because it is outside of the 
ooo-domain and also outside of bouncer. Please make the RCs available somewhere inside the ooo-
domain and provide the URL.

That the latest OOo-PPC version that has been managed to release status is only 2.4.0 is another 
problem. As requested I will point this out in the download page. The page will also be updated with the 
URL of the release candidate once the files have found a home inside the ooo-domain.

hdu: the original problem is more difficult than just the location of the
builds. Additionally someone has to test successfully the builds to be able to
say they are final. As you can see maho has build all languages which is really
great but until today only the en-US build is listed in QATrack (the tool to
notify others about the QA status like in QA, approved, etc. of builds). So
maybe the other language teams do not want or are not able to test the builds.
At least they should know it because maho is announcing them in the releases@ooo
mailing list. 

Please change the issue owner when you have modified the website, not before. ;-)

The download site has been updated: http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/aqua-PPC.html

> Additionally someone has to test successfully the builds to be able to say they are final.

The official RELEASE CANDIDATES need to be made available. They are not available directly from the OOo 
domain. How are they expected to approved as final releases if they are not distributed as the official 
release candidates?

@mla: please provide the URL of the release candidates inside the OOo-domain 

hdu: when you would know how a build get released then you wouldn't ask ;-),
also for non-Sun builds it is possible even when the way is different of course.
For the future we will try to make the release process more unique even for
non-Sun builds.

Apache OpenOffice is no longer available for MacOS on PPC. Closing this issue.