On 6/19/13 6:34 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 2:21 AM, Jon Peli Oleaga <oleaga...@hotmail.com>wrote: > >> >> >>> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:14:46 +0200 >>> From: jogischm...@gmail.com >>> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; l...@openoffice.apache.org; >> q...@openoffice.apache.org >>> Subject: [RELEASE]: proposal for an update of the AOO 4.0 release >> schedule >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I tried to get an overview where we are with our AOO 4.0 release and I >>> have thought about an updated release plan. I hope you share my view on >>> this updated plan and you will continue to help that we can achieve it. >>> >>> First of all I am still thinking that we should release the 4.0 as soon >>> as possible and before the majority will take a break and go in summer >>> holidays. And with a potential second release later this year in mind I >>> believe July is the best time. >>> >>> We are a little bit behind my proposed schedule that we can't hold under >>> the current circumstances. It's ok, we worked hard, did a lot of >>> testing, work on translation and things moved forward. But when I take a >>> look on the list of proposed show stoppers and the not yet integrated >>> help for the sidebar and the translation, I believe we should adapt our >>> release plan to take the current situation and status into account. >>> >>> I see the following work items that we have to complete before or in >>> parallel to the vote of an RC: >>> >>> - sidebar help >>> merge the English help file on Pootle and give the translation >>> volunteers at least the chance to provide a translation. This is not yet >>> done because the lack of time (I am the bottle neck here and maybe other >>> volunteers can jin me in the future to work on this). >>> The sidebar is the most visible improvement in 4.0 and now where we have >>> a help file, it should be translated if possible >>> >>> - finish general translation update, means update Pootle with offline >>> translated strings on demand, merge the localized strings back from >>> Pootle, run gsi consistency check to find potential problems like >>> mismatched xml tags. I would like to see some further languages complete >>> that are very popular, this includes Danish, Sweidish, German. >>> >>> - continue to review, identify the real show stopper issues. We expect >>> to come up in the end with a list of 15-20 real show stopper issues >>> >>> - prepare the update service >>> >>> - prepare release notes (attractive marketing material that can be >>> used), with screenshots as many as possible to highlight the features >>> and bug fixes >>> >>> - logo integration as first step of an ongoing brand refresh -> depends >>> on the availability of the logo files >>> >>> - RAT scan -> have to be checked >>> >>> - document migration path for incompatible API changes, not migrated >>> extensions >>> >>> >>> >>> Some of these points have to be finished until the first official >>> release candidate (RC). Taking all this into account I would like to >>> propose the following update: >>> >>> - Wednesday June 19th, update Pootle with sidebar help and provide Po >>> files for all current languages available on Pootle. >>> >>> - Monday July 1th, deadline for the localization, it always takes more >>> time to merge it back and fix potential problems >>> >>> - Monday July 1th, deadline for logo integration >>> >>> - Wednesday/Thursday July 3/4th, provide last snapshot build with all >>> available translations, logo if finished etc. >>> >>> - create new AOO release branch on Wednesday July 4th after the last >>> snapshot >>> >>> - continue fixing show stopper issues until Friday July 5th on the new >>> created release branch >>> >>> - start RC build on Monday July 8th, on new created release branch >>> >>> - July 9th, provide RC to the community and start voting on July 11th >>> continue to work and improve build independent work items, like release >>> notes etc. >>> >>> - vote should be finished July 4th >>> final preparation, signing, uploading etc. for the release >>> >>> - July 16th public release and announcement >>> >>> >>> Sorry for the longer email but I hope this make sense and we can all >>> agree on this to achieve our goal and make AOO 4.0 available to the >> public. >>> >>> Opinions and discussion should take place on the dev list only please. >>> >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Juergen >>> >>> PS: I will start to work on the Pootle update. >>> >> > > As always, thank your for your analysis here and great work as our release > manager. We have had a number of items that have changed just in the last > week or so and these, of course, need to be taken into account. > > On this one in your timeline-- > - vote should be finished July 4th > final preparation, signing, uploading etc. for the release > > Did you mean the 14th instead of 4th?
yes, a small typo ;-) Thanks for correcting it Juergen > > > >>> >>> Me too, I want to thank >> you for your hard and good work. >> >> >> As for the the voting on >> your proposals, I am not going to be able to complete the UI >> translation for the first release; so for me it is O.K. whatever >> seems adequate to you. Regards Jonpeli >> > >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: l10n-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: l10n-h...@openoffice.apache.org >>> >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
