On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 8:14:13 PM UTC-8, RjOllos wrote:
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> On Friday, December 27, 2013 5:44:24 AM UTC-8, RjOllos wrote:
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>> On Tuesday, December 17, 2013 11:08:34 AM UTC-8, RjOllos wrote:
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>>> On Sunday, December 15, 2013 1:30:58 AM UTC-8, cboos wrote:
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>>>> Hello Ryan, 
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>>>> On 2013-12-15 9:28 AM, RjOllos wrote: 
>>>> > Hi, I just wanted to get some thoughts on when might be a good time 
>>>> to 
>>>> > do the next release. There are a few tickets left in each milestone, 
>>>> but 
>>>> > those could be quickly closed or moved forward if we wanted to move 
>>>> > towards a release. 
>>>> > 
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>>>> As I see it, the main issue here would be the translations. There's a 
>>>> great amount of new or updated translations on Transifex, but they 
>>>> haven't been integrated yet. The "ideal" model I had in mind for 
>>>> working 
>>>> with Transifex hasn't happened (beyond french and japanese), and that 
>>>> model was to have a language maintainer being both the Transifex team 
>>>> coordinator and the Trac committer. The "second best" way was to have a 
>>>> process in place for regularly integrating all the changes from 
>>>> Transifex into Trac, and this hasn't worked out either, as it's quite a 
>>>> lot of work and I haven't been able to keep the pace with that. 
>>>>
>>>> There were two things that prevented us to fully automate this 
>>>> integration. One was that we still got the occasional direct commits 
>>>> from translators, and therefore integrating updates from Transifex 
>>>> required some kind of manual merge (as described in [1]). We could get 
>>>> rid of this problem by enforcing the updates to come exclusively 
>>>> through 
>>>> Transifex. The second issue was that as sometimes we would get changes 
>>>> only in 0.12 or 1.0, it was tempting to use the normal "merge upward" 
>>>> facility in order to get these translations on the other branches and 
>>>> trunk... Not only this isn't trivial to do (it needs the same kind of 
>>>> "normalization" steps as described in [1]), but having to maintain and 
>>>> update 3 sets of mostly similar message catalogs on Transifex is also a 
>>>> burden for translation contributors. I recently had the idea to change 
>>>> the approach here: instead of having 3 releases on Transifex, we could 
>>>> have a single "pool of live translations", i.e. the collection of all 
>>>> messages from 0.12-stable, 1.0-stable and trunk. We could make that 
>>>> pool 
>>>> live in /l10n at the root of the repository and I believe we could 
>>>> maintain that automatically: merging the 3 message catalog templates 
>>>> and 
>>>> all the message catalogs, and only have that on Transifex; the other 
>>>> way 
>>>> round, we could update the catalogs in a given branch with only the 
>>>> messages from the pool for which the message ids are in the 
>>>> corresponding template (.pot) file of the branch. Less work for 
>>>> translators, and an easy way to solve the merge problem (the only thing 
>>>> we would lose is the ability to have different translations in 
>>>> different 
>>>> branches for the same message id, not a real problem I believe). Does 
>>>> this sound like a good idea? 
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>>>> Even if would go for doing things this way, it wouldn't come for free 
>>>> either and I admittedly won't have time to implement that myself for 
>>>> yet 
>>>> another bunch of months, so this shouldn't hold the release(s). I think 
>>>> most users would be pleased with a point release as it stands now, with 
>>>> the promise that the next release will integrate all the updated 
>>>> translations. 
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>>>> > Mostly, I wanted to make sure that I wasn't holding up a release by 
>>>> > continuing to move tickets into the milestones. My approach has been 
>>>> to 
>>>> > continue to work tickets until someone has a chance to do the 
>>>> release. 
>>>>
>>>> Unless there are some which you consider to be blockers, we can 
>>>> "freeze" 
>>>> these milestones anytime by creating the new ones (0.12.7, 1.0.3, 
>>>> 1.1.3) 
>>>> and move the tickets there as appropriate. Besides, doing so gives a 
>>>> strong hint that a release is really on the way :-) 
>>>>
>>>> -- Christian 
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>>>> [1] - 
>>>> http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracL10N/Transifex#Checkingthestatus 
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>>> Thank you both for the feedback. As far as the tickets I'm working, I 
>>> can wrap them up by the end of this week. I'd be interested to hear from 
>>> Jun and Peter if that timing would work well with regard to any open 
>>> tickets assigned to the milestones that they would like to resolve before 
>>> the release happens.
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>>> - Ryan
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>> It looks like all the tickets are closed now. Please let me know if there 
>> is anything I can do to help with the release.
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>> As for 0.12.7 / 1.0.3 / 1.1.3, I tentatively set the due date to April 
>> 1st. If others are on-board, I like the idea of aiming for a shorter 
>> release cycle that leads to maybe 3-4 releases per year, and would scope my 
>> work accordingly.  
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> Also, my plan is to continue to move low risk tickets into the milestone 
> if I have changes ready, until i hear that someone is ready to make the 
> release happen. For example,
> http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/10029
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> We can always kick these tickets out if the changes haven't been committed 
> but we are ready to proceed with the release. Let me know if there is a 
> better approach. 
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There are some changesets eligible for merge to the trunk that look like 
they should be merged. I just wanted to check before taking action on 
merging these:

http://trac.edgewall.org/changeset/11795
http://trac.edgewall.org/changeset/11804
http://trac.edgewall.org/changeset/11820

Presumably, changes in trac/locale should not be merged?

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