Release Notes for F8 - first POT drop

[Noriko Mizumoto]

Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 14:51 +1000, Noriko Mizumoto wrote:
>> Paul W. Frields wrote:
>>> Greetings L10N folk!
>>>
>>> Due to scarce personnel resources we are running a couple of days behind
>>> our schedule[1] for the Docs Project.  However, I am getting the Release
>>> Notes ready for a POT drop today.  Although the schedule currently has a
>>> "deadline" of 23 September, we will be extending this until about 26
>>> September (2007-09-26).
>>>
>>> However, please keep in mind that your team does *NOT* need to complete
>>> ALL work by that date.  Due to last-minute bug fixes and other errata,
>>> you can expect a few string changes over the next few weeks, although we
>>> will strive to keep them to an absolute minimum.  You will need to
>>> complete all work by the listed date of 21 October (2007-10-21), subject
>>> to change if there are slips affecting the overall release schedule[2].
>>>
>>> In the past we have included only finished release notes in the test3
>>> release of Fedora, but that will NOT be the case for F8 test3.  Any team
>>> that works on their release notes translation will have their work
>>> included in F8 test3.  We would still like to include only finished
>>> translations in the final version to emphasize the professional polish
>>> of the distribution, but since I now have greater access to the
>>> fedora-release-notes package in the distribution, we will be more able
>>> to bring an update package into Fedora 8 during its cycle if additional
>>> languages are finished by some deadline date on which we can jointly
>>> agree.
>>>
>>> Reminder: the full fedora-release-notes package includes material from
>>> the following modules:
>>>
>> Thank you so much giving us clear picture!
>> Now I have a couple of questions, can I?
>>
>> * Should we need to update pot/po files for those manually?
> 
> I guess that depends on where you're getting them.  If I remember
> correctly, I've updated all the new POT/PO in Docs CVS, so if you
> normally pull your POT/PO directly from CVS, you should be able to just
> "cvs up" to get the latest.  If you pull from the Damned Lies interface
> at translate.fp.o, I believe that system automatically has the latest
> POT/PO as well.
I did from CVS, so they should be latest.
Thank you!
> 
>> * I've edited some LINGUS to include ja, then found that 'readme/' and
>> 'readme-burning-isos/' have no LINGUS under po/. What to do?
> 
> I just fixed this problem as well; sorry for the inconvenience.
Np, thank you so much.

noriko
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