Release Engineering

Mike Saunders wrote:

Started this by investigating whether the "vanilla" version of LO, which is back at the 5.2.x branch, should be removed from the Mac App Store (or have updated text).

So I've heard nothing back about the Mac App Store, but meanwhile I'm investigating whether a new Android version for the Play Store is coming up:

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2017-September/078424.html

What would be good is if we have a check of

• description
• pictures/videos
• requirements

of all existing apps at Google Play and iTunes store before the conference, and if need be an update to these elements rolled out, so they are accurate in time of the conference (the stores usually take some time to reflect changes)

Florian Effenberger wrote:

of all existing apps at Google Play and iTunes store

The only software on the Mac Store / iTunes store is the old and unsupported LibreOffice Vanilla:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/libreoffice-vanilla/id921923693?mt=12

I've asked Collabora if there are any plans for future releases, but heard nothing back.

On Google Play we have two apps:

• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.documentfoundation.libreoffice
• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.libreoffice.impressremote&hl=en

When I find out who has the login credentials I'll update the text (and screenshots if required).

The only software on the Mac Store / iTunes store is the old and
unsupported LibreOffice Vanilla:

There's also
https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/libreoffice-remote-for-impress/id806879890

So, I've gone through these:

1) LibreOffice Viewer for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.documentfoundation.libreoffice

• Updated, fixed and restructured description text to sell the app better (there was a lot of overlap)
• Added a new screenshot showing how it displays spreadsheets and charts
• Checked version requirements: all correct, in accordance with the source code

2) Impress Remote for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.libreoffice.impressremote

• Some improvements to the description text
• Moved one of the more exciting screenshots up front, so it appears first when users visit it on the Play Store
• Checked version requirements: correct

3) Impress Remote for iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/app/libreoffice-remote-for-impress/id806879890

The description text cannot be updated without releasing a new version. Cloph has kindly volunteered to do this, so I've created a ticket and also mentioned that we should check that the iOS version requirement is the same: #2365

Is there anything else to do here, or shall we close this ticket now?

Is there anything else to do here, or shall we close this ticket now?

Looks very good already, thanks a lot!
Some thoughts:

• How about the localizations? E.g. for me the content is shown in
  German. Can you check which locales exist and if we can translate them
  in the team or need to reach out to the NLC communities?

• Is the F-Droid text accurate or can this also need some tweaking? If
  so, please upload your tweaks to #2317 so both can be done at once by Cloph

Florian Effenberger wrote:

• How about the localizations? E.g. for me the content is shown in
  German. Can you check which locales exist and if we can translate them
  in the team or need to reach out to the NLC communities?

Yes, done for LibreOffice Viewer on the Play Store, which had quite a few text changes:

• Created a wiki page with the updated text: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/LibreOffice_Viewer_Play_Store_listing
• Reached out to the l10n community for translations: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-l10n-Updates-to-LibreOffice-Viewer-Android-Play-Store-listings-td4223187.html

For Impress Remote on the Play Store, the text changes were minor and relating to names (eg "Mac OS X" -> "macOS") so I have done those in the existing languages.

For Impress Remote on iOS, there's only English as far as I can see, so nothing needs changing in translations there. Also, the English text updates are waiting on a new release, in a separate ticket: #2365.

• Is the F-Droid text accurate or can this also need some tweaking? If
  so, please upload your tweaks to #2317 so both can be done at once by Cloph

Done -- added the updated description text to the ticket.

Thanks to the l10n community we received new and updated translations for the LibreOffice Viewer (Android) listing, so I've done description updates for:

• Bulgarian
• Czech
• French
• German
• Icelandic
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Slovenian
• Spanish
• Traditional Chinese
• Turkish

Some more translations may come with time, but otherwise I think I've done everything I can for this ticket now (F-Droid text updates are in #2317 for Cloph).