Thanks for the info. I believe the best practice approach outlined by Christian will work well. Always good to get into the habit of a hard string freeze, especially if we ever want to be included with GNOME.
Pete On 7/5/06, Christian Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/5/06, Peter Parente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I notice translators have started adding translations for the LSR > > project. Thank you for your support! > > > > I have a question about string stability. LSR is under heavy > > development right now as we push toward our 0.3.0 release. As a > > result, the translatable strings are likely to change during this > > period. > > > > What is the proper etiquette for changing translatable strings such > > that the early work of translators isn't rendered obsolete? Is it OK > > to change strings now and then declare a string freeze a couple weeks > > before release? Should I announce string freezes on this list? > > That's up to you to decide really -- as long as LSR is not part of the > official GNOME release, having string stability and string freezes for > the project is completely voluntary. For software included with the > official GNOME release, we are *very* picky about release-wide string > freezes and such, but as for now, you do what you feel is best. > > As a consequence, there is no real policy or requirement for this for > non-core modules. Some non-core module maintainers announce if and > when they add a string freeze and when the release is planned to be > made, and other maintainers simply don't announce anything. > > Perhaps some sort of "best practice" would be to announce a voluntary > string freeze on the gnome-i18n list when you are about to make an > important release, and let the translators know how much time they > have to do their thing. Please give the translators a time frame of a > week or at least a couple of days, though. > > > Thanks, > Christian > _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
