El dt 11 de 10 de 2011 a les 13:58 -0400, en/na Shaun McCance va escriure: > On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 18:26 -0400, Johannes Schmid wrote: > > Hi! > > > > > > Consequently the same question goes for "String Change Announcement > > > > Period" - CC'ing gnome-i18n as I'm wondering if translators still > > > > consider the "String Change Announcement Period" useful. > > > > > > I'm all in favour of dropping it, for the following reasons: > > > 1. I doubt it is really useful for translators > > > 2. I think only a minority really announce new strings > > > 3. It would be easy to do something automatic from l10n.gnome.org if > > > needed > > > > Agreed, can we just merge the "String freeze" into the "The Freeze", > > too? Because if you cannot change UI/features it is unlikely that > > strings will change and if they do, as Shaun pointed out already, you > > just sent a mail. I18n didn't block many strings the the last cycles and > > it oftens gives us the oppertunity to fix the string (english, type, > > whatever) before it is commited. > > I favor moving the string freeze up to "The Freeze", because the freeze > isn't really the freeze if you can still change strings in the UI. If > you change the label on a button, that affects the help. > > (Yes, OK, things like schema descriptions don't affect the help, but > still constitute a string change, but that's the exception.) > > Olav has a good point that the string change announcement period makes > developers think twice about changes. But this would put string freeze > up two weeks, which is some consolation. I think it's worth simplifying > the schedule, because freezes and change announcement periods don't do > us any good if developers can't keep track of them.
+1! Having 4 weeks of THE freeze would be enough for translators. The release notes could also start earlier, etc etc Cheers, > -- > Shaun > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-i18n mailing list > gnome-i18n@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n -- Gil Forcada [ca] guifi.net - una xarxa lliure que no para de créixer [en] guifi.net - a non-stopping free network bloc: http://gil.badall.net planet: http://planet.guifi.net _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
