Hello Andrew,

these questions are really valuable but it would be of more
value (for 
the others) to have them answered within the devqa list.
In this case I 
leave the original email attached.

Regarding differences between the OOo distributions:
There should be no difference if you take the install set
from one of 
the mirror servers ( these snapshot builds are built by Sun

Microsystems), if you take them from linux.cz (they're built
by Pavel 
Janik) or if you take them from good-day.net (they're built
by Nakata 
Maho). All these builds have in common that they AFAIK
explicitly use 
the sources from OOo's CVS repository. There can be
differences if you 
use a build from one of the linux distributions. Some of
them implement 
their own features which in most cases later get into OOo's
main codeline.

Regarding different milestones on different servers I can
say that 
src680_m211 was a bit late until it got into the mirror
network because 
master ftp had an outage and Pavel was a bit quicker to
provide a build. 
I usually add developer builds as OOo-Dev as they can be
installed 
besides an OpenOffice.org build. Please be aware that one
OpenOffice.org 
build replaces another one.

Kind regards, Joost

Andrew Jensen wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I've been doing some testing of issues, specifically
regarding the
> Base module. This is not a totally new experience for
me, testing
> software in general and testing OOoBase in specific.
Over the last 18
> months I have entered a few issues for Base.
> 
> However, recently I volunteered to join the QA team for
Base, meaning
> that now I get to actually change status on issues, and
given that it
> seemed prudent to bring a little more discipline into
what I am doing.
> 
> Looking at my computers here I realize I have OOo
distributions from 3
> different sources, and that is about to become 4
different sources.
> 
> First - there are distributions downloaded from OOo
mirrors.
> Second - there are distributions downloaded from
ftp.linux.cz
> Third - OOo distributions from my Linux distributor,
Ubuntu
> Fourth - I will be looking at what Novel is now
offering.
> 
> ( actually that should be 5, as I also run Kubuntu 64,
but OOo and the
> OS itself is not very stable there so I don't use it
much..a shame
> cause I really like KDE )
> 
> Now, I would of thought that the first two sources
should be giving me
> pretty much the same thing - but experience has proven
that not to
> always be the case. I will sometimes run into a problem
with OOo from
> linux.cz that does not happen in the same version of
OOo retrieved
> from an OOo mirror, less often this has been reversed.
> 
> In practice however there is usually a milestone
difference between
> what I get from linux.cz and what I get from OO.o.
Example - at
> present I have OOo-Dev 2.3m_210 from an OOo mirror and
OpenOffice.org
> 2.3m_211 from linux.cz.
> 
> To be clear, I do not build binaries from source, these
are all binary
> distributions.
> 
> This is getting wordier then I would like so let me cut
to the chase.
> 
> Is there a policy, or a recommendation, or opinion,
about which
> distributions are valid for testing of issues in the
OOo tracking
> system?
> 
> What about for opening new issues?
> 
> Some things are patently obvious - finding a problem
with VBA support,
> or with the new extension for importing/exporting MS
XML file formats
> under the Novel distributuion for example rightfully
belongs to Novel.
> 
> An example of what is not so clear to me is this. When
I downloaded
> the 2.3m_211 file from linux.cz and installed it, it
did not install
> as OOo-Dev, rather as OpenOffice.org 2.3. It created a
new directory
> structure for this 2.3 release and then quietly removed
all the files
> form the OpenOffice.og 2.2 directory tree. The splash
screens all say
> 2.2, but the help screens say 2.3. Do I just not report
this to
> anyone? If I do report it, do I do so via mailing lists
and not the
> Issue tracker?
> 
> Anyway, I hope you get the gist of what I am wondering
about.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Drew Jensen
> 

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