Jürgen Schmidt wrote:
I got the impression that the majority would support a
4.0 version as our next release.
So do I.
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
Since we have no critical bugs in 3.4.1, I would keep using the 3.4.x
series until 4.0 is available. If a security issue emerges that suggests
we should make a new release, we will fix it and release 3.4.2;
otherwise, I would just keep adding new languages to 3.4.1 and make a
couple of 4.0-beta releases, to get better exposure and QA, rather than
a 3.5 release.
But the 3.4.x series must have some predictable schedule or this won't
work. For example, I would propose the following:
- We announce on ooo-l10n that 2 December is the first deadline for
integration of new languages in 3.4.1
- We integrate and build available new languages in the week after it
(and we already have two, Danish and Polish)
- Native-language teams do some QA
- We approve/publish the new builds and the new source release (a 3.4.1
respin, rather than a 3.4.2, since this would confuse users)
- We set a new deadline for new languages, and so on
Regards,
Andrea.
