On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:07 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > first of all I would like to volunteer again as release manager for our > next release if it's ok for our community. > > Second I would like to define with you what our next release will be. > After various discussion and activities on the mailing list and also at > the ApacheCon, I got the impression that the majority would support a > 4.0 version as our next release.
Here is what we currently have on the planning wiki as proposed for 4.0: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Planning Is it your/our intention to have these items complete for a proposed 4.0 release? > > We are planning some bigger UI changes for the next release (sidebar) > and such UI changes are always a good indicator for a new major release > to signal our users bigger changers. I know Ariel has also some > incompatible changes regarding add-ons in the pipeline that would also > fit in a major release. > > I noticed some discussion around a new visual design and a bigger > rebranding and this is a further reason for a major release. > > I think it is time to define this more concrete and focus in more detail > on the work that is needed and required to bring a good and stable > release on the road. Our goal should be to continue the success of 3.4 > and 3.4.1. > > If nobody will complain I will start to merge the started 3.5 and 4.0 > planning into one combined planning later. I believe it is important > that we concentrate on our next release. If you think a rebranding is > important and you want to drive it, please start immediately. If you > want to bring in some new features, please communicate it on the list > and start working on it. Let us work on the plan for the next release in > an open and transparent way. > > Besides the next major release we should also continue the discussion on > further language packs based on 3.4.1 to make the latest translations > available as soon as possible. > > One way to make these language packs available would be to integrate the > new translations on the AOO34 branch, build the language packs and a new > source release based on this revision. The effort should be minimal as > long as we don't integrate bugfixes. > > On the other hand a release is of course a lot of work and we can focus > on releasing these new languages together with 4.0. The question is if > we do have the resources for releasing the new languages? > > Any opinions or feedback? > > Juergen -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK “How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?” -- Anais Nin
