On 28 December 2013 19:52, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > 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. > I think a beta is a good idea, could we please agree to name it something like beta1 to differentiate it from RC1, which is something internal to me.
> > > > >>> 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. > If I remember right, we did not make a new version, just release the new languages (incl. danish) for the same version. rgds jan I. > > > -Rob > > > > Regards, > > Andrea. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
