2008/3/7, Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Package maintainers are no more in the light than the translators, all > the package maintainer is doing is packaging a new upstream version and > uploading it.
The wider subject is an interesting one any maybe something that should be part of some tool - telling "stringinterdiff" between releases. Anyway, I'm most interested in the ubuntu-specific packages, where the maintainers are also the developers - they should note whenever they change any text in the program during UIFreeze. Also the program UI should of course be ready by that time. If eg. GNOME application has strings changed during their own string freeze, package maintainer cannot be excepted to always notice that. But when a new upstream version of some user-visible main-repository program is put in, like network-manager-applet, I think it should be part of the process during UI freeze to notify translators since it's almost certain have changed. I'm not sure about the best way developers could spot the changes if one is not sure. One is that once the template from the source package is updated in Launchpad's Rosetta, it's seen in the most common packages easily if all languages now miss some translations. But that's more a tip from the translator's perspective... Part of the subject is also, as noted, that if application functionality is changed so that documentation needs updating, the doc team needs to be contacted. These collaborations with documentation and translator teams during UI Freeze should be part of the very basic developer documentation (if it's not there yet). > Both of the packages referred to, I believe, are part of a standard > freeze exception -- as is the entire GNOME desktop. Maybe FeatureFreeze exception, but not UserInterfaceFreeze exception? The UIFreeze process might very well need changing, and spreading information about it, but it's currently as it is described on the https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess page. -Timo -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
