17 Apr 2015

First bug hunting session for LibreOffice 5.0

Posted in LibreOffice, QA By Italo Vignoli On April 17, 2015

Berlin, April 17, 2015 – The LibreOffice community is getting ready for the next major release – planned for the end of July – with a bug hunting session focused on new features and fixes for bugs and regressions. The session will last 3 full days, from May 22 to May 24, 2015, and check the first beta of LibreOffice 5.0.

On those dates, mentors will be available from 08AM UTC to 10PM UTC to help less experienced volunteers to triage bugs, on the QA IRC channel and via email on the QA mailing list.

Those who cannot join during the bug hunting session are always welcome to help chasing bugs and regressions when they have time. There will be another bug hunting session in June, to test LibreOffice 5.0 Release Candidate 1.
Builds of LibreOffice 5.0 Beta 1 will be available until early June from this link: http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/pre-releases/.

Further information are available here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugHunting_Session_5.0.0.0.

The decision to change the naming/numbering scheme of the next LibreOffice major release from LibreOffice 4.5 to LibreOffice 5.0 is based on the following rationale:

  1. The next major release of LibreOffice will be the first available for Windows 64bit, and – during the life of the 5.0 family – on mobile and cloud;
  2. The next major release of LibreOffice will integrate another significant batch of visual and usability improvements, which will complete the activity started with LibreOffice 4.4;
  3. The difference in numbering will make it easier to communicate the gap in features with the previous generation, and convince an increasing number of users to switch to LibreOffice;
  4. Last, but not least, 2015 is the 5th anniversary of the announcement of The Document Foundation and LibreOffice.

Comments

  1. By Beluga

    The bug hunt is in May instead of April 🙂

    • By italovignoli

      Thanks, I got it right now. Apologies, no one spotted the problem on the draft announcement.

  2. By paul2012

    Reblogged this on My Blog and commented:
    🙂

  3. By Alan

    Are there significant other features besides the changes for Online that are coming that are not listed in the current release notes? So far the changes listed on the release notes while nice are not huge. I understand the need for a version jump but the references to “difference in numbering will make it easier to communicate the gap in features with the previous generation,” makes me wonder what else is neAlaw but not listed.

    • By italovignoli

      That page is still work in progress, and cannot be used until feature freeze, which will happen in a while. Also, marketing volunteers need some time to write about the new features, once they are available.

      • By Alan

        So what features are new that should be there that you are referencing. If it is an open source project you should be able to say at anytime right and not wait for a “big release”. 🙂

  4. By Bunnie

    It says you can get this free up to early June. Will this be after the bug search? If it is will there be a chance to upgrade for free to the improved version after the bugs are found?