From kde-i18n-doc  Mon Jan 05 16:09:59 2009
From: "Kristof Bal" <kristof.bal () gmail ! com>
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:09:59 +0000
To: kde-i18n-doc
Subject: Re: Artwork freeze vs String freeze
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2009/1/5 Albert Astals Cid <aacid@kde.org>:
> Hi, while planning for the KDE 4.3 schedule[1] someone brought up one issue
> that affects the l10n team.
>
> You can see that the planned artwork freeze is on June 23rd and the planned
> String freeze is on May 5th.
>
> That may be a problem since new artwork usually needs new strings (like for
> example the name of a game theme or the name of a background for the desktop,
> etc)
>
> So i'm here asking you if we should allow for explicit excemption on the
> message freeze for new messages appearing due to new artwork or not.
>
> My opinion is: I think it could be ok to allow an explicit excemption for new
> messages due to new artwork given there's at least one month after the
> artwork freeze until the release time.
>
> Albert
>
>
> [1] http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.3_Release_Schedule
>

Isn't a really big issue for the Dutch team I guess. Also, it won't be
that many strings at all.

Kristof