It's time to decide what goes into 4.1.2 and what doesn't. Not in terms
of specific bugfixes (we have the standard process of nominating release
blockers for this and I don't plan to change it), but in terms of
categories. The following is a realistic list of what we can have in
4.1.2. Shall we take it as the overall plan for 4.1.2?
1. Bugfixes
This is obvious: being a bugfix release, OpenOffice 4.1.2 will contain
fixes for the most important/annoying 4.1.1 bugs. Actually 4.1.1 is
proving to be very stable, but we have some bugs fixed on trunk already
(and a few more with patches ready) that should be considered. We'll
come to this in separate discussions.
2. Features
As the release number tells, OpenOffice 4.1.2 is not meant to come with
many new features. But there are two fields where we should make
exceptions and introduce new features:
* Digital signing: Infra has prepared months ago (with significant
investments) the whole infrastructure for us to produce digitally signed
packages, which would install with no problems/warnings for Windows
users. Jan already made some experiments, but he also clarified he will
be very busy with organizing ApacheCon in these months, so we may need
someone to step up here.
* Windows 10: Millions of our users will run Windows 10 within a few
weeks. OpenOffice is reported to work smoothly on Windows 10
pre-releases. Should any major Windows 10 incompatibilities appear, they
should be fixed in 4.1.2.
3. Localization
* Existing translations: Pootle is now tracking the 4.2.0 release, so
translators do not have an immediate way to fix translations for 4.1.2.
There is a possibility to check whether we can reuse the 4.2.0 strings
for 4.1.2, but due to the version clash I would prefer to fix strings
upon request, in the SDF files directly and only in the case of major,
well-defined bugs (example: the Italian version has a typo in a main
menu item; it is fixed in Pootle for 4.2.0 AND we can edit the SDF file
manually to fix it for the 4.1.x line).
* New translations: same problem with Pootle; we don't have any new
translations (additional with respect to 4.1.1) ready at the moment; if
a translation reaches 100%, I'm available to investigate better what we
can do with the Pootle 4.2.0 strings for 4.1.2, since that would be the
most logical solution.
* Existing dictionaries: no problem, we will integrate them as usual. A
deadline will be agreed upon and sent to the l10n list.
* New dictionaries: no problem, we will integrate them as usual. A
deadline will be agreed upon and sent to the l10n list.
Regards,
Andrea.
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