On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 01/22/2013 01:41 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote:
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>> Am 01/22/2013 09:06 PM, schrieb Jürgen Schmidt:
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>>> our plan was to release AOO 3.4.1 on Jan. 24th. I think I have forgot to
>>> start the necessary vote in time and plan to do this tomorrow now.
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>
> hmmm...for some reason, I didn't think we needed a vote on this...oh well,
> my mistake obviously
>
If we have new translations then we have new contributions, content
that is part of the product, that we need to license. Maybe this is
just PO files? Maybe it is the resource bundles that the PO files are
converted into?
Since the "convenience binaries" must be based on released source, I
think we need to release (and vote on) the new source as well.
-Rob
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>>> According to this plan think of the following release plan to vote, make
>>> the bits available, prepare announcements, prepare the download page
>>> (update for new languages), ...
>>>
>>> 1. start vote on Jan 23th and inform infra about the planned release
>>> 2. provide the bits after the final vote on Jan. 26th, I will do that
>>> late
>>> on Saturday becasue I am traveling to he US
>>> 3. inform infra and SourceForge about the release and wait at least 24
>>> hours for synchronizing the mirrors, I would say until Tuesday
>>> (Tuesday is
>>> always a good day for an announcement)
>>> 4. in the meantime prepare an announcement and have it in place for
>>> Tuesday, Jan 29th
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>>
>> Tuesday next week is also good.
>> I should be able to assist with the website in the evening hours (CET).
>>
>>> 5. the same for the adapted download page
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>>
>> @Kay, all:
>> Any need to test the additions in a test area? I've just changed the 8
>> new languages in "languages.js" to be available ("n" ---> "y"), added
>> download links to the "other.html" and also for the checksums webpage.
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> It might be nice to able to do a "live" test once the packs are at
> SourceForge -- I can't tell by this when that might be -- late Sun?
>
> So, I would suggest uploading revisions to /download/test just to make
> sure.
>
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>>> 6. put the changes live and fire up the announcement, share the news via
>>> all channels
>>> 7. adapt the update mechansim to support the new languages
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>> ... and make sure to exclude "hu" as it's already available.
>>
>> Marcus
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>>> 8. start counting the downloads ....
>>> 9. being proud of a further release and thank our translation volunteers
>>>
>>> 10. continue towards AOO 4.0
>>> 11. invite further translation volunteers, QA and developers to join AOO
>>> and make 4.0 a further success and available in more languages
>>>
>>> Ok 10. and 11. will have some time and a lot of work is in front of us
>>> but
>>> it will happen ;-)
>>>
>>> Sorry that I forgot the vote in time and we have to postpone the release
>>> until next week.
>>>
>>> Juergen
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