Hi, I am currently thinking about a possible release date for AOO 4.1.1 and believe a date in August would be good. The main question is how long the QA work will take?
AOO 4.1.1 will be a bugfix release only with some additional translation update and potentially new languages. A further point is if we make a Beta or not or work with RC candidates only. Again it is a bugfix release only and every official release (and a Beta is official) needs more effort. And when I try to reflect the last Beta I don't think it was very successful. We had >300000 downloads and thought we would receive the necessary and good feedback we need to release a good version. AOO 4.1 is good but we have some serious issues that were not detected during normal Qa and not during the Beta phase of active Beta users. Currently we have 26 issues with granted or requested showstopper flag. Most of them are already fixed. I haven't seen any issue so far a translation update. If issues exist already please request the showstopper flag asap. We have no new strings and I know that update work or fixing of translation is already ongoing. We should plan in time with a deadline for translation updates. I think a possible date can be mid of July. We need a fixed date that people can plan accordingly, otherwise we run always in the same situation and changes are coming in late. But that don't scale very well and we should keep deadlines in mind. What does others think about it? Juergen PS: this mail is on dev only because dev is our main mailing list. We have again the situation that people active on QA or l18n don't read dev which is problematic because they potentially miss important news for upcoming releases. But sending info on all lists will result is split discussion that I would like to avoid. I didn't really worked in the past, even not with a reply-to filed. Well final deadlines will be communicated on the qa@ and l18n@ list as well. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
