On Nov 11, 2013 6:37 AM, "Jürgen Schmidt" <jogischm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 11/10/13 8:06 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Ricardo Berlasso > > <rgb.m...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > >> 2013/11/3 Keith N. McKenna <keith.mcke...@comcast.net> > >> > > Andrea Pescetti wrote: > >>>>> Comparing http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html > >>>>> and https://translate.apache.org/projects/aoo40/ I see that > >>>>> we have: - Two unreleased languages that are now 100% > >>>>> translated (Bulgarian and Danish) - One language with only > >>>>> about 1000 words left and activity in the last week > >>>>> (Norwegian Bokmal) - Three languages with about 4000 words > >>>>> left and activity in the last week (Thai, Uighur, Hebrew; > >>>>> Indonesian and Icelandic are in the same group, but less > >>>>> active) > >>>>> > >>>>> Would it make sense to schedule a "language update" 4.0.1 > >>>>> release for late November? I mean something like: announce > >>>>> a translation deadline on the l10n list, produce SDF files > >>>>> for the languages that reach 100% (which of course already > >>>>> include Bulgarian and Danish, and hopefully some of the > >>>>> other languages listed above), building only those > >>>>> languages and releasing an updated source package and > >>>>> binaries for those languages. > >>>>> > > Yes I believe that it would make sense and would add to our > > reputation for actively supporting native languages. > > > >>> > >>> Indeed. +1 from my part for a language update to 4.0.1. > >>> > >>> Regards, Ricardo > >>> > > > >> +1 > > > >> I also think this would be a good idea...hopefully our Release > >> Manager will comment soon. > > In general I am always a fan of having further languages available as > soon as possible. But we are still in the situation that our builds > and releases take some time. We have no Mac build bot and we don't > have Linux systems that can build against our currently existing > baseline.
I know we don't have a Mac buildbot but what is meant by the Linux comment. The last I saw 32-bit nightly was OK. 64-bit success seems intermittent. Is this what you mean? All this should be taken into account and even a language > update requires some time and we should think careful if we want to do > it for 2 languages only. > > I we can complete at least 5 languages until end of Nov. we can make > language update only. Means we will release only this new languages on > the AOO401 branch + a new source release. The same as we did for 3.4.1 > where we released 12 new languages. > > And this is only a time limiting factor because many other things are > to do and we already started thinking about a 4.1 release. > > But I am open and in the end I won't be the limiting element here even > if I ave to do major parts of such a release > > Juergen > > > > > > > > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > > It would make more snse > >>>>> So this would work like we did for 3.4.1 when we added new > >>>>> languages. Why not call it 4.0.2? Well, we already > >>>>> discussed it, but the main reasons would be: for the > >>>>> languages already released in 4.0.1, 4.0.2 would be > >>>>> identical (example: 4.0.1 in French would be identical to > >>>>> 4.0.2 in French) since all commits in the meantime have > >>>>> been done to trunk; a new 4.0.2 release takes a much > >>>>> larger effort than a 4.0.1 language update, so it is harder > >>>>> to find volunteers and this is worth doing only if we have > >>>>> some important bugfixes for 4.0.1 to include (and I don't > >>>>> see any at the moment). > >>>>> > > It would make more sense for it to be 4.0.1 unless there were > > critical bug fixes that would justify a 4.0.2. The only potential > > glitch that I see is handling the release notes. I have a couple of > > ideas that I will lay out in a separate thread if we decide to go > > ahead with a language only release. > > > > Regards Keith > >>>>> Regards, Andrea. > > > >>> > >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> > >>> > 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 >
