The NEWS file and the release announcements will make the reasons clear. On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 1:07 PM Harry Thijssen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi > > In my opinion it is a bit confusing to have no release between november > 2018 and august 2020 and then have release 1.4.0, 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 in a few > weeks. > Package builders and users who are not following this list won't have a > clue why. > > Stay safe > > > Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 09:42:08 -0700 >> From: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> >> To: Friedrich Beckmann <[email protected]> >> Cc: John Darrington <[email protected]>, pspp-dev >> <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Give a 1.4.1-rc1 prelease to translation.org and wait? >> Message-ID: >> <CAA_G9+iQ1PHqaF5bXkOR+Cf5Et= >> [email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> I know two ways to deal with translations and releases: >> 1. Put out a prerelease for translators to work with, give them a few >> weeks, and then do the release with the updated translations included. >> 2. Put out a release and give it to the translators at the same time, then >> do a second minor release a little later with the updated translations. >> We used to do #1, but I favor #2 these days, because it likely gives users >> an earlier opportunity to use the new release, even if some of the >> translations aren't ready yet. Also, there will always be some >> translations >> that have not caught up, even if we give a few weeks in case #1. >> >> So, I am inclined to release 1.4.1 and make it available to the >> translation >> project, and then after translations get updated we can release 1.4.2. >> >> What do you think? >> >> On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 9:09 AM Friedrich Beckmann < >> [email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > I think we can still fix some stuff for the 1.4.1 release but my concern >> > is that >> > the translations are missing. Listening to Harry: >> > >> > > Yes the release version is always a bit more work. And actually >> nobody >> > whats them because they need the translations too which is included in >> > later test versions. I usually take a version af a few weeks later as >> teh >> > released version. >> > >> > Therefore the translators need a pre release but that should not trigger >> > all integrators to make a new release for the distributions. Of course >> this >> > only makes sense when we think that the changes will not affect the >> > translation strings. >> > >> > Fritz >> > >> > > Am 04.09.2020 um 17:10 schrieb John Darrington < >> > [email protected]>: >> > > >> > > Something wierd is going on with how the pspp.pot file is generated. >> I >> > will >> > > investigate this tomorrow. This will surely have an effect on >> whatever >> > we >> > > release next. >> > >> >>
