On 11/21/12 10:14 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > Am 11/21/2012 09:41 PM, schrieb jan iversen: >> On 21 November 2012 21:30, Andrea Pescetti<pesce...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> 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 >>> >> December 2 is very close, when I think of the work in progress on a >> number >> of languages, I would suggest end of the year.
indeed very close and I will be offline for some further days next week. I count at least 3 languages Danish, Polish, Scots Gaelic. And when we increase the deadline until the end of the year we potentially get even more. >> >> >>> - 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) >>> >> Would it not be more confusing to change the 3.4.1 distribution files ? I >> would warmly suggest only to release language packs, since they are >> separate and do NOT change the existing distribution. > > If I have understood it correct, only new full install and langpacks > files will be distributed - or maybe only langpack files. both would be possible, I ma flexible here. For using the same download mechanism and no further special handling it would be helpful to have the same files as for all other langs. > > I don't think that it's needed to replace files except for the source > files. Exactly, we would release the new languages only on base of 3.4.1 and a new src release. When we do a further 3.4.2 release we can build the new languages in the same way as the others. Juergen
