Translation freeze dates & FC6T3

[Thomas Canniot]

Le vendredi 15 septembre 2006 à 17:27 +0300, Nikos Charonitakis a
écrit :
> On 9/15/06, A S Alam <aalam at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Dimitris Glezos ਨੇ ਲਿਖਿਆ:
> > > O/H A S Alam έγραψε:
> > >> Dimitris Glezos ਨੇ ਲਿਖਿਆ:
> > >>> I'm not sure how this happened, but many translations that were
> > >>> made before 3/9, did not make it into FC6T3. From the Schedule I
> > >>> see that the development freeze is 5/9.
> > >>>
> > >>> I saw it at least in anaconda, -config-date and comps-po.
> > >>>
> > >>> Furthermore, even if devel freeze is 5/9, the translation has no
> > >>> reason to stop at that time. At least that happens in GNOME, where
> > >>> translation continues after the string freeze and the hard freeze?
> > >>>
> > >>> http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointSeventeen
> > >>>
> > >>> -dim
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >> Yes, I agree with you regarding this about stop translation. but
> > >> anything done now *may or may not* get in. prodding the maintainer is
> > >>  always helpful it shouldn't be a problem at this point if you try it
> > >>  the week of the final freeze, then however... :)
> > >
> > > To be honest, it was *very* hard for me to find time just before the
> > > freeze, but I did find it and corrected mistakes in *all* the packages
> > > so that the greek community can give us feedback from test3. It is sad
> > > to find out that those sleepless nights were not necessary... And of
> > > course I'm sure many other contributors might feel the same way.
> > >
> > Not all packages will rebuild, only package, which have some
> > critical bugs will be rebuild, so it is good to fix translation before
> > 14 Sept.
> >
> > > The feedback we receive from the community always comes from test
> > > releases. Especially from the test3 release.
> > >
> > > Can we have then a point on the schedule where the translations should
> > > freeze, so that maintainers know when they should grab a fresh copy of
> > > the po files. I'm suppose this could be done even at the last moment.
> > >
> > >
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Core/Schedule
> > "5 September  FC6 Test3 Development Freeze" means String freeze
> > "14 September FC6 Test3 Release" Last date to submit string
> > but as string changes for anaconda and some other package, so
> > you can update string as Maintainer is building package again
> >
> > if you find that your translation is major issue for your
> > language for any package, please file a bug against package
> > and ask maintainer to rebuild package or include translation in next
> > rebuild
> maintainers have to build all packages that contain even a single line
> of updated translations.
> Not included translations has always been a problem with fedora/redhat
> translation project and it has to be fixed.
> As dimitris pointed in his message it's not nice people volunteer
> their time for nothing...
> 
> regards
> Nikos
> >
> > regards

It's either not nice to push new .pot files near the end.

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206620


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