Am 11/22/2012 12:57 PM, schrieb Jürgen Schmidt:
On 11/21/12 5:33 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote:
Rob Weir wrote:
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Keith N. McKenna
<keith.mcke...@comcast.net> wrote:
Regina Henschel wrote:
Hi Jürgen,
Jürgen Schmidt schrieb:
Hi,
first of all I would like to volunteer again as release manager for
our
next release if it's ok for our community.
+1
+1 on that from me also
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.
I'm not in favor of an version 4.0 as next release. The changes have
listed below would justify a version "4.0". But I doubt, that they are
possible in a time frame, I see for the next release.
I am with Regina on this one. I do not see a Jan or Feb time frame as
feasible for the design and implementation of a new and still a
comfortable
bit of padding to deal with the inevitable gremlins that will sneak
out of
the woodwork to assure the kind of quality release that is expected of
OpenOffice and that we expect of ourselves.
Uh, Juergen never suggested January or Feburary as a time frame for
4.0. So I don't see how one can dismiss a 4.0 proposal as being
unfeasible based on dates that he never suggested. Maybe we should
ask Juergen what timeframe he had in mind for 4.0? Of course, it
might be possible to do both, provided we have volunteers willing to
own testing and release management for 3.5.
-Rob
As I re-read the post you are correct Rob and I apologize to Juergen for
reading to much between the lines. What timeframe were you considering
for a 4.0 release Juergan?
Well I had indeed not February in mind but when we targeting on end of
March or April we will have more time.
That sounds good. Should be enough time to implement and test new things.
So, back to the question "Next release 4.0 or not? ;-)
Suggestion from me:
- define within the next few weeks what features are for good for a 4.0
release
- when we find only big things then implement them for 4.0 in March/April
- when we see *additionally* enough smaller things, then a 3.5 could be
done, too. Maybe until end of January?
I assume the following is no problem and already agreed:
- release new languages with 3.4.1 codebase
- do a 3.4.x when we have serious issues that can/should not wait for
the next bigger release
Maybe we can take first a look on what others have in mind to put in the
next release.
OK
Marcus
