Hi, Am Fr., 16. Aug. 2019 um 20:49 Uhr schrieb <mcatanz...@gnome.org>: > > On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 7:31 pm, Alexandre Franke <afra...@gnome.org> > wrote: > > Weekends are usually the time when most translations get done. If you > > remove this opportunity, I guess we should consider freezing earlier > > too so that translators basically get the same amount of time to do > > their job. > > I'm a bit confused by this argument, because Monday is only the > deadline, the last-possible day to release, not a recommended day. I'm > going to do my 3.33.91 releases today most likely, or maybe tomorrow. > Waiting until the deadline is very stressful IMO. > > Personally, my favorite time to release is right after the release > reminder gets sent out (Thursday night in America). But of course any > time before the tarball deadline is fine for release team.
The danger here is that translators sometimes assume that the tarball deadline ("tarball day") is the translation deadline, since that is the day where (apparently) the tarballs are rolled. As I have since learned, this is incorrect as each project releases at some random time beforehand. Which means translators don't have any useful deadline. Something could be done about that: It would require defining an earliest possible tarball day which ensures that translations make it on time. But meanwhile, we (our team) probably just try to have things done a few days before the deadline while hoping for the best. Translations committed late will then come along in the subsequent release, so it's not the end of the world. Having said that, according to my experience, the main problem is actually whether distributions like Ubuntu pull the translations properly. They apparently pull many of their translations independently of GNOME releases, and Launchpad has a billion bugs so we sometimes go for several years with a project not updating its translations and then have to file a bug report again *grumble* *grumble*. Best regards Ask _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list