[oodisc] Fw: [releases] Changes to OpenOffice.org roadmap

[Maxim Britov]

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Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 14:58:01 +0200
From: Martin Hollmichel <martin.hollmichel на sun.com>
To: releases на openoffice.org
Newsgroups: openoffice.releases
Subject: [releases] Changes to OpenOffice.org roadmap


Hi,

In the last few months we postponed bug fixing and concentrated on 
implementing new features. We didn't achieve the UI freeze and feature 
completion scheduled for the end of July and have since extended this to 
the end of August.

What is more important though, is that the quality of the newly 
implemented features and of the resulting master builds has not 
progressed as we would like. This leaves us with a huge number of open 
bugs yet to resolve. We believe that we will be able to achieve 
sufficient quality by the end of January.

What is the consequence of this delay?
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Some overdue features that were considered not critical enough for 
OpenOffice.org 2.0 have been postponed. We will continue to monitor the 
remaining open bug count and review the roadmap as required.

The revised roadmap:

End of August 2004: 2.0 UI Freeze
December 2004: 2.0 Beta
January 2004: 2.0 Fixes will be done on a separate branch
February 2005: 2.0 RCs
March 2005: 2.0

No longer is there a specific "feature complete EA" milestone. To 
solicit early feedback, we will continue to provide frequent snapshots 
in such a quality that we can make them available on OpenOffice.org.

Martin

PS see http://development.openoffice.org/releases/OpenOffice_org_trunk.html

PS for l10n: It will be likely that after end of August still some 
strings will change. I got the promise that this will be very few 
strings and will get documented on this list (releases на openoffice.org). 
If you want to be aligned with the above schedule, localizations should 
be completed until end of November. I will announce more specific dates 
for you as soon as I know them.

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