Re: Proposed string freeze exceptions

2009-10-05 Thread Matthew East
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Milo Casagrande wrote: > 2009/10/5 Matthew East : >> There may be a misunderstanding here - we're not suggesting that the >> translators should be doing the reviewing after the string freeze. > > No misunderstanding Matt, but looking at things now, looks like > tran

Re: Proposed string freeze exceptions

2009-10-05 Thread Milo Casagrande
2009/10/5 Matthew East : > There may be a misunderstanding here - we're not suggesting that the > translators should be doing the reviewing after the string freeze. No misunderstanding Matt, but looking at things now, looks like translators are doing the reviewers. And am not saying it is wrong, b

Re: Proposed string freeze exceptions

2009-10-05 Thread Matthew East
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Milo Casagrande wrote: > 2009/10/5 Matthew East : >> >> Yes, that's true. But by way of compensation - you would have helped >> to find a bug and to have it fixed, and the re-translation of such >> strings would be necessary in any event! The majority of strings won

Re: Proposed string freeze exceptions

2009-10-05 Thread Milo Casagrande
2009/10/5 Matthew East : > > Yes, that's true. But by way of compensation - you would have helped > to find a bug and to have it fixed, and the re-translation of such > strings would be necessary in any event! The majority of strings won't > change, especially those which don't have bugs... Agree,

Re: Proposed string freeze exceptions

2009-10-05 Thread Matthew East
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Milo Casagrande wrote: > Hi, > > 2009/10/5 Matthew East : >> >> 1. Since it's the translators who often pick up these items, we should >> encourage translators to start working on the docs well before the >> string freeze. The reality is that most of the work they

Re: Proposed string freeze exceptions

2009-10-05 Thread Milo Casagrande
Hi, 2009/10/5 Matthew East : > > 1. Since it's the translators who often pick up these items, we should > encourage translators to start working on the docs well before the > string freeze. The reality is that most of the work they need to do > can be started earlier without the work being wasted.

Re: Proposed string freeze exceptions

2009-10-05 Thread Matthew East
Whoops, forgot to copy the translators in - please reply to this email rather than my previous one. Apologies! On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Matthew East wrote: > Hi Dean, > > I'm copying in ubuntu-translators and Jono for their respective input > on the various points below. > > On Sun, Oct 4,