Hi, we all know that the number of volunteers helping with translation is growing and we would like to make new languages as soon as possible available. This is important for two reason, first to make AOO available in further languages to reach more users. Second to show our volunteers that their work is appreciated and become integrated as soon as possible. We don't have a well defined process for doing it at moment but we will find a working way that will be ok for all of us. And we can improve it over time when see demand for changes or improvements, means we don't have to find a 100% perfect solution from the beginning.
The most important part is how we do the naming of the different parts of such a release. I see two different scenarios: 1. Only new languages, no bugfixes, no other code changes We add the new languages on top of the existing AOO34 branch, build the office with the new languages and release the new languages as convenience binary packages. We also build a new src release package and add the revision number in the name to identify a respin of the orginal 3.4.1. For example: aoo-3.4.1-rev1372282-src.tar.bz2 This new src release becomes the default for 3.4.1 because it is a respin only (no functional changes) The revision number is part of the about dialog as well and it is possible to identify the respin. 2. New languages + bug-fixes or security fixes The micro number will be increased and we do a normal release cycle. The src release will contain the revision number in future always. Concrete proposal for 3.4.1 and new languages: 1. set a deadline for new translations, for exmaple December 31, 2012 2. integrate the new languages and provide the builds until January 10, 2013 3. test and verify the new language builds asap 4. release the new languages at the end of January Why a deadline until December: The reason is quite simply, we have 22 languages with an UI coverage of more than 95% (ok Turkish 93%). My plan is to prepare a blog entry and call again for volunteers for these languages where the effort is moderate. My hope is that we can integrate a few of the important ones. UI coverage with more than 93% ============================== 100%: Danish 98%: Korean, Polish, Asturian, Uighur, Icelandic, Indonesian, Welsh, Catalan, Bulgarian, Latvian 97%: Greek, Basque 96%: English (South Africa) 95%: Portuguese, Swedish, Marathi, Kannada, Gujarati, Irish, Oriya 93%: Turkish Juergen