On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Shenfeng Liu <liush...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2012/11/24 Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com>
>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>> Kay,
>> That's the 4.0 planning wiki we should continue to work on. But some
>> items there were input long long ago (when we thought there would be a 3.5
>> in front...). So I suggest we should revisit the contents there.
>>
>> - Shenfeng (Simon)
>>
>>
>
> Simon --
>
> Well yes we should.
>
> FYIW, I looked at the 3.5 planning doc as well. And, I couldn't
> determine really what from the 3.5. had already been implemented in
> "trunk". I need to go over this.
>
> OK, I only bring up the cwiki page because this is what the "public"
> has been seeing and is referenced in the recent "Call for Marketing
> Volunteers" blog. .
>
oops! sorry, meant to delete this partial sentence...please ignore it.
> Also, we might look again at the information that was colelcted via the Google
>>>
>>> >
>>> > 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
>>>
>
>
>
> --
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> 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
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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
