On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > 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
This looks good, and it looks like we need an issue filed for Danish... >>> 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. Well even if "provisional", some of these releases might be pretty unfriendly for the end user. On the other hand, we might encourage some involvement with completing these translations. > 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 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
