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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Freeze: May we ADD messages?
From:       Peter Putzer <pputzer () edu ! uni-klu ! ac ! at>
Date:       2000-07-31 12:51:11
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On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Stephan Kulow wrote:

> David Faure wrote:
> > 
> > Le Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Peter Putzer a
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >the subject says it all...
> > 
> > and the answer is no AFAIK.
> > Otherwise translators will never be able to catch up with the new messages
> > popping up everywhere between now and the 2.0 release. They can't translate
> > all of KDE overnight :)
> > 
> > Now, maybe that you can get an exception from them ?
> > There has to be a freeze, but at the same time, 10 new strings added now
> > aren't impossible to take care of....
> > 
> I know this message is a bit old, but I would like to answer anyway.
> There will come enough "exceptions" and I would like to see them
> reserved
> for docu changes like quick help and what's this. We wanted to reserve

An exemption for What's This would be very good (the other stuff is not so
important, you're right).

> time between the beta and the release with bug fixing, documentation
> writing 
> and translations. 
> Just don't think about new features and document the old ones good
> enough
> and introduce what's this, etc. (the documentation of ksysv is from
> '98...)

I know. But I assumed from the webpages that writing documentation is not
a task of the author anymore.

Someone is listed as writing documentation for KSysV, but he didn't
respond to my email offering my help...

As of now I currently don't have time (I'm working full time until the end
of August), sorry :(

bye,
Peter

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