Comment 10 for bug 651124

A new job opening has been up for some weeks on Ubuntu's web site:
http://webapps.ubuntu.com/employment/canonical_UP-SE-RS2/

It indicates "[...] The successful candidate will ensure a first class user experience by envisioning new desktop integration features for office productivity, packaging, desktop integration, bug fixing and development of office productivity related software such as Open Office. [...] Required skills & Experience: [...] - Strong interests and experience with Open Office and/or other Open Source office productivity software packages. [...]"

Presumably this same person will take care of LibreOffice packaging. I can't speak for Canonical as I am not involved in packaging or hiring such resources (and wasn't, when I worked for them).

The current release is not alpha but a release candidate 3.3.0-rc1 which I have been using for some weeks now and installs cleanly besides OpenOffice.org without conflicts that I could see in my limited use of Writer and Impress. I also tested language packs: logging into different language sessions brought the corresponding language LO apps when invoked, as expected.

I downloaded directly from http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/testing/.