Do we participate in the schedule?

[Dimitris Glezos]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Ankitkumar Rameshchandra Patel
<ankit at redhat.com> wrote:
> Dimitris Glezos wrote:
>
> To answer the Q, we don't actively participate, but we could
> participate. The best ways to do so would be by opening a ticket on
> their trac intstance, getting a discussion going on the next releng
> meeting about what we need from them, and participating in the
> on-topic discussion when prompted for:
>
>   https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/105
>
>
> I found http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-10/f-10-all-tasks.html
> which gives two dates for "PO Files due from Translation", one is 21st
> October, 2008 (Testing phase - Beta release) and another is 6th November,
> 2008 (Lauch phase - Release Candidate). However,
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Schedule gives only one date, that is 21st
> October for "Translation Freeze".
>
> So, can we find some clarity on the schedule?

I think the latter refers to the website and release notes. Just
before the release we need to freeze the website content, translate
it, and have it ready for the announcement.

> Should I put the same query on the above ticket? OR Any of the FLSCo members
> can find it out?

Opening a ticket to releng for clarification might help. In general,
releng asks *us* to let them know of which dates we want to have, so
next release, let's make sure we let them know in advance of what we
suggest.

> Our need is to know the due date to submit our translations. The reason,
> date looks important to me (and I think for all localizers) is because,
> strings keep on changing even if there is a "String Freeze" date given to
> the developers. Which basically increase our efforts most of the times to
> complete the translations. So, if we know the last date to submit the
> translations then we all can estimate our workload and schedule the
> translations accordingly.

Right -- it'd be a good idea to communicate the above with releng and
put them up somewhere for future reference, for example on the Freezes
page [1] and on our FAQ.

  [1]: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Freezes

-d




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