Hello folks, We don't seem to have any pressing reasons not to ship the first beta for 2.5.0, so I plan to try to get the tarball out either next weekend (19-20 July) or, failing that, at the end of July.
Current draft release notes are here: <http://www.freeciv.org/wiki/NEWS-2.5.0> =-=-=-=-=- As regards S2_5 translations: there won't be a string freeze, but all updates are of course welcome. I have just committed a large update to translations on S2_5 and trunk to remove the large numbers of duplicate 'obsolete' strings that have infested some of the translation files since the split. (More detail than you need in <http://gna.org/patch/?4650>.) There were also a few translations which were fresher on older branches because I hadn't got around to copying them across; this has now been fixed (es/ru S2_4 -> S2_5 and trunk; ko S2_5 -> trunk). If you haven't started S2_5 yet, it's best to start with the fresh files just uploaded to <http://www.cazfi.net/freeciv/translations/S2_5/> (a similar update for S2_6 will follow soon). If you _have_ started before this update, you can ignore it if that's more convenient; it's similar to a "make update-po", and nothing will be lost if you do so. (Translations with recent activity -- pl and fr -- have not been touched.) Areas with potentially volatile strings that you might want to leave until last: client/gui-qt/ (due to bug #22314 / bug #22315) data/civ2civ3/ (changes expected under patch #4936) (These probably won't be finalised until after beta1.) People trying to test their extended nation translations on S2_5/trunk may find that it doesn't work very well due to <http://gna.org/bugs/?22318>. The fix for this should be committed to svn in a couple of days. I'm aware the translator workflow for these new split translations is a bit unclear; do feel free to ask about it. =-=-=-=-=- We're also thinking of doing a stable 2.4.3 release soon, just to pick up bugfixes and make it available for e.g. the next version of Debian. I don't have a firm date for that (or its string freeze), but expect it to be after 2.5.0-beta1. However, there has been an unusually large amount of string changes and additions since 2.4.2, so if you haven't looked at your S2_4 translation recently, you might want to get started soon. cazfi.net is up to date for S2_4 translations. (If anyone wants to finish off S2_4 before starting on S2_5, we can push any S2_4 updates into S2_5 split translations for the beta.) _______________________________________________ Freeciv-i18n mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-i18n
