On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile <arie...@apache.org> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 01:39:59PM +0100, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: >> Hi, >> >> based on some earlier discussion I think we have reached more common >> consensus that we 1. want release further languages for AOO 3.4 1 and 2. >> how we can do that. >> >> To make it more concrete I have created a new wiki page [1] where I >> would like to document the release process, the proposed release >> schedule, how the new translation will be integrated etc. >> >> The page is not yet complete and we can add further information on >> demand. Please help me to document the issues, references to >> dictionaries etc. >> >> I propose to extend the deadline a little bit to reflect the holidays >> and the new year's day. >> >> Proposed release schedule: >> - translation deadline, January 4th, 2013. >> All new translation have to be available as attachment to a new related >> issue for each language. >> - availability of 1. developer snapshots, January 11th, 2013 >> - potential 2. developer snapshots, January 25th, 2013 >> - GA, January 31th, 2013 >> >> Any opinions, concerns or feedback? Follow up discussion should take >> place on the dev list only (the list where decisions are made). > > It may be a good idea to build all languages, or at least those with 80% > of the UI translated, but release only those with 100%; we could leave > the rest in people.apache.org as unofficial builds (at least langpacks), > and point people to them instead of you-know-what http://s.apache.org/yY >
We can't do that. We either release or we don't release a language. If we're not releasing it then we should not be pointing users to it on people.apache.org. This is an issue both from Apache release policy and Infra policy (bandwidth issues). However, we could talk about actually releasing 80% complete languages, maybe marking them "beta" or "provisional" or something else. If we vote to release them then we can distribute via the normal ways. Of course, if a translation is 80% AND we have volunteers working to complete it, then it makes sense to build milestone builds with those languages, to facilitate the translation and QA work of those languages. -Rob > > Regards > -- > Ariel Constenla-Haile > La Plata, Argentina
