I will be driving the branding effort from the marketing team. I agree design work needs to be done early. 04/04 is a good target.
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 5:32 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 2/20/13 10:46 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > we make good progress with the sidebar work which is done on the branch. > > The sidebar will be the most visible and important change for 4.0 (by > > the way I like what I have seen so far). We come closer to the point > > where we should talk about a more detailed schedule. > > > > I would like to start with the following proposal and still many steps > > have to be defined in more detail. > > > > 03/01 function verification test will start, define test case, prepare > > tests etc. > > 04/04 integrate sidebar branch in trunk, other new features should be > > finished by this date as well. > > I missed to add that the art work (logo, icons, etc. should be finished > at this date as well) > > > 04/05 - 05/15 regression testing will be start on trunk > > 04/05 - 05/15 bugfix and stabilization, no feature development > > 04/08 - 05/15 translation -> I guessed ~5 weeks for updating the new > > strings. This can change when we know exactly how many new strings we > > will have. But translation for new languages can already work on the > > existing po files for 3.4.1. > > 05/21 RC1 > > 06/04 RC2 > > 06/18 RC3 (optional), can be GA already > > 06/25 GA -> this should be our final target > > > > > > This is a proposal based on the ongoing work that I no. Please let me > > know if I missed something important. > > > > Regular developer builds 1/week + nightly builds > > > > Based on feedback and potential changes I will put this in the wiki > later. > > > > Important is from my pov that we start talking about the improvements > > that we make in public. It should be very clear for anybody where the > > real important features and improvement for OpenOffice or derivatives > > are coming from ;-) > > > > > > Juergen > > > >
