On 06/18/2014 05:10 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > Issues for potential updates of dictionaries are required as well > > Juergen > > On 18/06/14 13:18, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: >> 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?
Currently, this sounds like a reasonable plan. In my opinion, we don't need a "beta" for a maintenance release. >> >> 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] > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." -- attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
