On 5/27/13 5:17 PM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to discuss our further schedule towards AOO 4.0 and the > problems I see. And I would like to discuss a proposal how to address > these problems. > > We are behind our schedule a little bit and we have identified some > problems regarding the 64bit port on MacOS that I will try to explain > below (hopefully without too many technical details that everybody can > understand it). > > Proposal > ======== > - Move MacOS 64 bit version to 4.1 and merge stlport relevant changes > (all platforms) asap into trunk and include them in AOO 4.0. > > - Move into showstopper mode next week, beginning with June 3th. Means > we integrate only showstopper flagged issues and new translations. And > potentially new art work if we get a new logo and icons in time. > Deadline for new art work should be June 10th. > > - Intensive QA with the stlport changes to detect potential problems > > - Create a AOO 4.0 branch 1 week later, June 10th, where we hopefully > have integrated already returned translations. > > - Translation deadline will be set to June 14th to have some time for > the integration and further testing. Further translations can we release > at a later time as a special language update release (TBD)
I have to correct myself because I am probably the bottle neck here and I will be not available from June 14-17. But maybe others can help to update at least the pootle server. Means that I will integrate the translations on June 18th latest. But if possible please provide them earlier. Juergen > > > > I would still like to keep the end of June date because everything else > looks quite nice and we should give our users the new sidebar. > > A shifted release date won't really help us because we will move in the > vacation time and I think it is better to bring the 4.0 version out before. > > Once we have solved the mozilla problem for the 64bit version we can > decide if we want release a 4.1 immediately or later together with > further improvements, fixes and further languages. > > > Background Explanation > ====================== > > Herbert did a great job with his ongoing work to port AOO to 64bit on > the MacOS platform. This work is mainly triggered and motivated by the > deprecation of some system abi's and the drop of 32 bit Java. In short > we switched to the clang compiler, a new platform SDK, XCode4, replaced > for example atsui API with CoreText, get rid of stlport (on all > platforms) and did many more cleanup that work that were necessary > because of better and/or different compiler/linker behaviour or error > messages etc. Everything looked quite well until we focused on the still > used precompiled older Mozilla libraries. We currently struggle with > porting this stuff to 64 bit and evaluating if we can get rid of them > completely. A complete drop of the mozilla libs would be a further huge > improvement but it is of course a lot of work to understand the code > first and all dependencies and to replace it with some new code... At > the moment we see this on risk for AOO 4.0 and plan to postpone this to 4.1. > > But the drop of the stlport lib is relevant for all platforms and will > introduce a binary incompatibility. The best and only time for such an > incompatible change is a major version. The plan is to extract the > stlport relevant changes and merge them on trunk asap (this week). This > will decouple any further work on the 64bit port and we can release the > 64bit version at any time later (as 4.1) because the 64bit version is > based on a completely new platform on MacOS additionally to the existing > one. > > The 32bit version will be part of the AOO 4.0 release and we will need > this version for backward compatibility on older system anyway. The > 64bit version will run on 10.7 and newer only. > > > I am looking forward to any constructive feedback or concerns. > > Juergen > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
