Re: [tdf-discuss] Are we sure not to release 3.4.4-RC3? This is the last release until February and 3.5.0 one!

Hi Thorsten,

Il 07/11/2011 14:42, Thorsten Behrens ha scritto:
> Carlo Strata wrote:
> > I'm thinking about the one related to object alignment in Calc
> > (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37083).
> Hi Carlo,
>
> did you poke Eike yet, whether he considers the fix safe for 3.4?

Yes, just now as I think you have seen! ;-)

> > , but also the annoying just caught related to Base opening and
> > immediately closing table view
> > (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42612), that seems to
> > be a regression,
> That bug is not even fully analysed, let alone fixed yet - so why
> should we even start pondering to delay a release of an otherwise
> improved version?

You are right, but this one is the only one I read about in these days 
and that is a regression...
I'm sure there are some other ones ("3.4's most annoying bugs")...

> > What do we think about?
> Release 3.4.4.2 if no showstoppers are found, and then monitor what
> gets fixed / cherry-picked on the -3-4 branch for deciding if/when
> to release further updates. :)

Ok, I have understood!

But let me say that I have always the bigger idea that TDF is thinking 
to make people to jump directly from 3.3 to 3.5 one and that 3.4 is an 
intermediate branch that let us to grow in quality and functions/power.
I say this because Rainer (Bielefeld) told me (on September the 1st, 
2011) that TDF are fixing all bugs in Master trunk (3.5) and cherry pick 
something good for 3.4's releases... This means that 3.5 may be better 
than any 3.4 is now and will ever be.

That's good, but in this way we "wait a complete, rock solid and 
professional (appearance, rendering) suite" until 2012's first Quarter 
and so I always ask myself if we are loosing many chances, too much time 
and so on...

OpenDocument files are used, but not so widely yet: there is a good walk 
to do on this... The more Libò installation we all are getting the more 
sending and receiving an OpenDocument file become a daily thing and most 
people will use that open format and spread Libò APIs, interest, TDF 
certification (!!!) and so on...

That's my opinion. :-)

> Cheers,
>
> -- Thorsten

Have a nice evening,

Carlo

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