On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 17:06, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayami...@gmail.com> wrote: > CC += localization list > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:10, Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: >>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:24, Simon Schampijer <si...@schampijer.de> wrote: >>>> Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:06, Morgan Collett <morgan.coll...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:53, Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> chances are that some of the bugs we get to fix during 0.84.1 will >>>>>>> require string changes. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> What do people think about bundling all those string changes together >>>>>>> in one single update in something like one or two weeks? Then >>>>>>> translators can translate those in one go before 0.84.1 is out. >>>>>> >>>>>> Today is UserInterfaceFreeze for Ubuntu jaunty, which includes a >>>>>> string freeze, so although the Ubuntu release is on April 23 we won't >>>>>> be able to ship 0.84.1 if there are string changes. >>>>>> >>>>>> The best approach for Ubuntu packaging in this case would be to apply >>>>>> 0.84.1 patches which fix bugs and which don't have string changes, to >>>>>> the 0.84.0 packages. >>>>> >>>>> Then I guess it would be better to not change any string in 0.84.1? >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> >>>>> Tomeu >>>> >>>> Yeah, string changes sounds out of question for 0.84.1 - however did you >>>> have anything specific in mind - that would not work at all without a >>>> string >>>> change? >>> >>> There are some tickets about file transfer that would need UI changes, >>> but we can probably do without new strings, not sure. >> >> After giving a deeper look at the schedules in Fedora and Ubuntu, >> looks like we can land fixes that imply string changes, as their >> freezes don't apply to Sugar. >> >> For Ubuntu, it was clarified some minutes ago: >> >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserInterfaceFreeze?action=info >> >> For Fedora, the string freeze only applies to software for which >> Fedora is upstream: >> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/StringFreezePolicy >> >> So maybe we should take this chance and add some strings for 0.84.1? >> >> Regards, >> > > > To be honest, I'm a bit apprehensive about lifting the string freeze, > since it may cause a large number of strings to be pushed into the > stable branch all of a sudden (I know that everyone has his/her > favourite string which has not got in due to string freeze ;-), and as > soon as the freeze is lifted I expect a deluge of new strings coming > in). > Normally most projects (GNOME, etc) do not lift the string freeze for > minor releases, and I think that the translators are expecting that > the string freeze will _not_ to be lifted for the 0.84 release. > Considering the above two facts, I would prefer the status quo to > remain - in other words, if you want a new string to go in, use the > normal process you follow for a string freeze break approval.
Oh, sure, what I was proposing is to ask an exception for the set of strings (3-4) we need to add. Not really to lift the freeze. Regards, Tomeu _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel