When will OpenOffice.org 2.0 officially come out? [LWN.net]

When will OpenOffice.org 2.0 officially come out?

Posted Aug 30, 2005 17:45 UTC (Tue) by dwheeler (guest, #1216)
Parent article: The second OpenOffice.org 2.0 beta

So what's the expected date for releasing the "real" (QA'd) OpenOffice.org 2.0? Under the top twenty list of things to do, there are only 3 defects, and all of them involve text directionality (so it's likely that they can be ironed out around the same time). The rest are feature requests, and I suspect that most users would be happy even without them. At one time the use of Java was concerning, but now gcj plus GNU Classpath seem to be able to implement OpenOffice 2.0 just fine (as evidenced by Fedora Core 4).

I'm nervous about trusting my most important data to a beta, especially when the maker says "please don't use it for production use."

I'm not the only one. bug 51915 asks where the schedule info is, but I don't see a reply with an answer. The roadmaps I can find are out-of-date. Anyone know?

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When will OpenOffice.org 2.0 officially come out?

Posted Aug 31, 2005 4:01 UTC (Wed) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803) [Link]

I wouldn't say FC4 is a shining example of OOo + gcj. At best, it's an encouraging preview release. My attempts to do anything productive with the Base application fell flat pretty quick when I tried to edit the structure of a table and add a primary key -- it simply couldn't be done. Frankly, I'm surprised they shipped it in its current state.

I hope that OOo 2 final + gcj 4.1, hopefully combined in FC5, will finally give us a production ready system.

When will OpenOffice.org 2.0 officially come out?

Posted Aug 31, 2005 5:21 UTC (Wed) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]

> Frankly, I'm surprised they shipped it in its current state.

Don't be. That's what FC is for - finding bugs.

When will OpenOffice.org 2.0 officially come out?

Posted Aug 31, 2005 8:00 UTC (Wed) by kms (subscriber, #6679) [Link]

> > Frankly, I'm surprised they shipped it in its current state.

> Don't be. That's what FC is for - finding bugs.

I think many, including those in the Fedora Project, would agree with your statement: Fedora Myths.

When will OpenOffice.org 2.0 officially come out?

Posted Aug 31, 2005 11:23 UTC (Wed) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]

> I think many, including those in the Fedora Project, would agree with your statement: Fedora Myths.

I'm not sure if you meant "would" or "wouldn't" here, but it looks like the latter, after reviewing that link. I hope that you aren't suggesting that this sentence:

"It is also a proving ground for new technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat products."

Means something other than using FC to find bugs. I'm not sure how a technology becomes "proven" without being tested and without bugs being found and squashed...

This doesn't necessarily mean one cannot use FC on production machines. I do so daily (with various degrees of success, depending on the task).

When will OpenOffice.org 2.0 officially come out?

Posted Aug 31, 2005 11:59 UTC (Wed) by kms (subscriber, #6679) [Link]

[ Yep, I meant wouldn't ]

The point I was trying to make was that the purpose of Fedora is not solely to find bugs for Red Hat, but that is how I interpreted your original statement.

When will OpenOffice.org 2.0 officially come out?

Posted Sep 1, 2005 10:02 UTC (Thu) by job (subscriber, #670) [Link]

There is some talk among OOo blogs that hopes it could be ready for their conference, which would mean the last of september. That sounds a little bit optimistic to me, depending on if they want to make a coordinated release with all the localization teams or just go with what they have.