2012/1/9 Jürgen Schmidt <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > As we come closer to a release of AOO 3.4, the first Apache OpenOffice > release and the first one managed under the control of the new Apache > OpenOffice project, I think that now it is also a good time to look forward > to our next release (AOO 4.0) and what we want to bring in this release. > > I would like to propose a new wiki page > (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Feature+Planning) > where we can collect and document all things that we would like to address > in our next release. I have already started to list some things where we > (wearing my IBM hat) would like to concentrate on and I would like to > encourage all of you to extend this list with your own things where you > would like to work on. >
Thanks for putting this up, Juergen. As we all know, the 3.4 release is relatively modest in scope, at least from the feature perspective. So it is good to get a glimpse at what we can see in AOO 4.0. I added another feature, and put my name next to it. I also added a similar wiki page and table for AOO 4.1: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1+Feature+Planning That way, we can start collecting proposals there as well. It would be good if we could develop a regular cadence of releases after 3.4, maybe a release every 6 months. > You know IBM has announced that they will contribute the changes (bug fixes, > performance improvements, new features or general improvements) from > Symphony to the new AOO project and prerequisite for contributing these > changes have been reached with an IP cleaned AOO 3.4 and the consistent > licensing under ALv2. We can now start to contribute these changes to move > the project forward, make it faster and better and show our commitment to be > an active member of the Apache OpenOffice community. > > > Juergen
