On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 17/12/2013 Jürgen Schmidt wrote:
>>
>> I don't know what others think but based on this new information I would
>> like to move my proposed schedule a little bit.
>> Jan 24, 2014 feature freeze
>> Jan 27, 2014 translation freeze ...
>>
>> Mar 21, 2014 RC1?
>> Apr 1, 2014  GA? (I like this date if possible)
>
>
> In general I agree with the schedule, but what strikes me here is the 2
> months between the translation deadline and the RC1. I know the integration
> work takes time, but 2 months seem excessive. This would mean that a
> translation completed in February must already wait for the (possible)
> language update release.
>

In this time period we also have a public beta release.  That is the
where the additional time goes.  If we want translations in the beta
(why wouldn't we?) then we end up with a schedule like this.

>
>>> some time ago we have discussed a language only release on base of
>>> 4.0.1. And even a language release requires a lot of work. Until today I
>>> see 3 potential languages ready which is not enough from my perspective.
>
>
> We are now at 4 new languages at 100% (bg, da, nb, th). Even if your
> proposed schedule (new version) is respected, this means that Danish, that
> was completed back in October just after the 4.0.1 release, would stay
> unreleased until April. Thanks to your and Herbert's work we will have
> snapshots available for those languages from the buildbots in a couple days,
> so most of the integration work has already been done. Wouldn't it make
> sense to release 4.0.1 in the additional 4 languages in January, to avoid
> the 6-months gap?
>

This sounds like a good idea to me, a language refresh like we did with 3.4.1.


-Rob


> Regards,
>   Andrea.
>
>
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