[tdf-announce] LibreOffice 4.0 Test Marathon: December 14 to 19

 The Document Foundation announces a 6 day Test Marathon
 to help preparing the new 4.0 version of LibreOffice,
 the best free office suite ever


Berlin, December 7 2012,  The Document Foundation announces the 
LibreOffice 4.0 Test Marathon. During 6 days, from December 14 to 19, 
users and supporters around the world will be testing the first beta of 
the upcoming LibreOffice 4.0.

The final version of LibreOffice 4.0 will be released in February 2013. 
By organising this big Test Marathon early, the developers will be able 
to fix many bugs before the release candidates and the final version are 
made available.

The LibreOffice community has organised various bug hunt sessions 
before, with many people joining, bugs found and tests done. This has 
contributed considerably to the overall quality of the product.
Also participants were enthusiastic. Thanks to helping in the QA work, 
they learned a lot about powerful functions of LibreOffice and tricks 
how to use the office suite.

Participating is easy and fun. Since the event is lasting a week, 
everyone may choose the moments that suit them best.

Details are available on the wiki of The Document Foundation
  http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Test_Marathon_LibreOffice_4.0.
There's also an overview of LibreOffice 4.0 new and improved features 
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.0.

All participants need is a PC with Windows, Mac OS X or Linux, and a 
LibreOffice 4.0 test version (which will be available from 
http://www.libreoffice.org/pre-releases a few days before the Test 
Marathon), plus a lot of enthusiasm.

Filing bugs will be extremely easy, thanks to the help of experienced 
people who will be around those days to help users and supporters with 
tips, on the QA mailing list (libreoffice-qa@freedesktop.org) and on the 
IRC channel (irc://chat.freenode.net/libreoffice-qa).


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 Cor Nouws
 The Document Foundation - Founding member
 - twitter : cor4office
 http://nl.libreoffice.org
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