Mattias Engdegård wrote on Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 19:40:00 +0200: > 8 aug 2013 kl. 08.21 skrev Daniel Shahaf: > >> Mattias Engdegård wrote on Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 23:43:36 +0200: >>> Sorry about the late reply; I rarely have time to read the >>> development >>> list. It seems unlikely that many translators do - how are they >>> notified >>> about the need to update their translations? It is common to have >>> this as >>> an explicit step in the release process; perhaps I have missed the >>> broadcasts so far. >>> >> >> We don't have such a step. I don't know if such announcements have >> been >> sent, but .de translator Jens Seidel also expressed interest in having >> such --- so perhaps we [c|sh]ould do that in the future. > > Please consider that a strong suggestion then. After all, there can be > no surprise at the lack of translations if nobody thought of telling the > translators. > > The usual way is to alert the translators when a release is about to be > made, but leaving them some time to actually do the work -- maybe a week > or two. It could be a good idea to notify them each time a new release > branch is forked off as well, since a lot of strings may have changed > from the previous release and that will give a little more time for > preparation.
Should we retroactively send a round of "Hey, 1.8.x has been released, please update translations on trunk and 1.8.x" ? Can you update docs/community/releasing.part.html or roadmap.html with a reminder to consider sending a Call For Translations to translators?
