On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 5:24 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > first if all I volunteer to act as the release manager for AOO 4.0.1 if > that is wanted but I am also open to let somebody else to the job ;-) >
It is probably best if you continue, since 4.0.1 is very closely related to 4.0.0, and you already have the build environment set up, etc. > In preparation for an AOO 4.0.1 release I have first created a AOO400 > tag based on revision 1503704. I have also created a new branch AOO401 > based on branch AOO400 based on the head revision of the branch. > > I noticed that Yuri checked in some code on the branch already. Can we > please follow some guideline how we handle such release branches? > > I would like to propose the following: > > Changes on a release branch should be discussed before and should be in > relation to a proposed and approved fix (if you want showstopper) that > will go in the next release. > > > For now that means the branch AOO400 is dead and changes towards AOO > 4.0.1 have to be made on the new branch AOO401 and should be discussed > first. Or propose the related issue as showstopper first. > > I believe we agreed more or less to keep the changes for AOO 4.0.1 > minimal to reduce the test effort. We should concentrate on the most > serious issues only and on new languages or improved translations. Keep > in mind that AOO 4.1 is coming as well. Stability is a key feature and > every single bug fix can introduce a regression as well. Often not > obvious directly. > I assume we also want to avoid introducing new UI strings? Otherwise we'd require translation updates on all languages. > > Any opinions or comment son this plan. > Should we create new Release Notes? Or augment the existing 4.0.0 ones? It might be simpler if 4.0.x releases share the same release notes, but we start with fresh ones for 4.1? -Rob > Juergen > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
