On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Shenfeng Liu <liush...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/11/24 Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com>
>
>> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:07 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> Here is what we currently have on the planning wiki as proposed for 4.0:
>>
>>
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Planning
>>
>> Is it your/our intention to have these items complete for a proposed
>> 4.0 release?
>>
> Kay,
> That's the 4.0 planning wiki we should continue to work on. But some
> items there were input long long ago (when we thought there would be a 3.5
> in front...). So I suggest we should revisit the contents there.
>
> - Shenfeng (Simon)
>
>
Simon --
Well yes we should.
FYIW, I looked at the 3.5 planning doc as well. And, I couldn't
determine really what from the 3.5. had already been implemented in
"trunk". I need to go over this.
OK, I only bring up the cwiki page because this is what the "public"
has been seeing and is referenced in the recent "Call for Marketing
Volunteers" blog. .
Also, we might look again at the information that was colelcted via the Google
>>
>> >
>> > 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
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> MzK
>>
>> “How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world
>> she wants, rather than to create it herself?”
>>
>> -- Anais Nin
>>
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MzK
“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world
she wants, rather than to create it herself?”
-- Anais Nin
