My dear dev team, I am an user, so there is only an user opinion: a new UI? great!
+1 Emanuel Almeida IT Analist jan iversen <j...@apache.org> wrote on 21/11/2012 11:34:41: > +1 for 4.0, graduation is a very good argument. > > And thanks for volunteering, you have a big job ahead of you. > > Jan. > > > On 21 November 2012 14:24, Shenfeng Liu <liush...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > +1 for 4.0. > > We really should have a big release after graduation. > > > > - Shenfeng (Simon) > > > > > > 2012/11/21 Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > first of all I would like to volunteer again as release manager for our > > > next release if it's ok for our community. > > > > > > Second I would like to define with you what our next release will be. > > > After various discussion and activities on the mailing list and also at > > > the ApacheCon, I got the impression that the majority would support a > > > 4.0 version as our next release. > > > > > > We are planning some bigger UI changes for the next release (sidebar) > > > and such UI changes are always a good indicator for a new major release > > > to signal our users bigger changers. I know Ariel has also some > > > incompatible changes regarding add-ons in the pipeline that would also > > > fit in a major release. > > > > > > I noticed some discussion around a new visual design and a bigger > > > rebranding and this is a further reason for a major release. > > > > > > I think it is time to define this more concrete and focus in more detail > > > on the work that is needed and required to bring a good and stable > > > release on the road. Our goal should be to continue the success of 3.4 > > > and 3.4.1. > > > > > > If nobody will complain I will start to merge the started 3.5 and 4.0 > > > planning into one combined planning later. I believe it is important > > > that we concentrate on our next release. If you think a rebranding is > > > important and you want to drive it, please start immediately. If you > > > want to bring in some new features, please communicate it on the list > > > and start working on it. Let us work on the plan for the next release in > > > an open and transparent way. > > > > > > Besides the next major release we should also continue the discussion on > > > further language packs based on 3.4.1 to make the latest translations > > > available as soon as possible. > > > > > > One way to make these language packs available would be to integrate the > > > new translations on the AOO34 branch, build the language packs and a new > > > source release based on this revision. The effort should be minimal as > > > long as we don't integrate bugfixes. > > > > > > On the other hand a release is of course a lot of work and we can focus > > > on releasing these new languages together with 4.0. The question is if > > > we do have the resources for releasing the new languages? > > > > > > Any opinions or feedback? > > > > > > Juergen > > > > >
