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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: String freeze for 4.0
From:       Thomas Reitelbach <tr () erdfunkstelle ! de>
Date:       2008-01-24 7:35:30
Message-ID: 200801240835.30167.tr () erdfunkstelle ! de
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Am Mittwoch, 23. Januar 2008 22:24:08 schrieb Burkhard Lück:
> Am Mittwoch 23 Januar 2008 21:23:03 schrieb Thomas Reitelbach:
> > Of course we could wait for Tagging of 4.0.1.
> > But documentation updates don't force translators to re-translate
> > immediately as it is with normal GUI messages. Translators can keep their
> > old docbooks and re-generate them when they think it's a good time. Thus
> > there is no pressure of time with tagging.
>
> That's not really true.
> Imagine there are some teams with a nearly translated documentation, they
> could finish and proofread their translation in the few days until tagging.
> If we update these docs now , they get additional fuzzy and untranslated
> messages, maybe too much to make it for 4.0.1.
> Or imagine the translation is finished, but the docs are not generated yet,
> updating now means, that the language docbooks ca not be generated any
> longer.
>
> I think the best time to update the docs (only backports from trunk please)
> is the week after the tagging.
> This gives every team 3 weeks until the next tagging to finish doc
> translations and generate the language docbooks.

You're right. Let's wait until tagging for 4.0.1 is finished.

To avoid this discussion to come up every now and then, should we make this a 
rule of thumb for the upcoming releases? (Allow docbook updates in the week 
after tagging)

Cheers
Thomas

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