From kde-i18n-doc  Sat Jun 16 15:14:15 2012
From: Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:14:15 +0000
To: kde-i18n-doc
Subject: Re: Soft freezes, feature freezes and some KDE modules
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El Dissabte, 16 de juny de 2012, a les 09:33:44, Yuri Chornoivan va escriure:
> Hi,
> 
> KDE 4.9 Release schedule [1] proclaims that after 17th of May
> 
> "No major new strings changes should be done. You cannot add new strings,
> if you really need one ask kde-i18n-doc for an exception."
> 
> "Trunk is frozen for all feature commits, even those listed in the planned
> feature document. Only bug fixes are allowed."
> 
> Regretfully, some developers (KDE PIM, Umbrello) successfully ignore these
> claims and continue to add messages (sometimes these additions are not
> perfect ;) ) and features to the trunk.
> 
> Can these freezes be removed for KDE PIM and KDE SDK at least for this
> cycle? Seems that they are not followed anyway... May it be worth to
> determine other terms for these modules?
> 
> To be honest, it does not matter much now as we have more than a month to
> finish the translations. But the release is coming, some people have plans
> for their vacations... So unexpected freeze breakages can result in low
> quality or the lack of translations.

As Kevin says, the people doing the commits need to be "kindly reminded" of 
the freezes, please give me (in private) some pointers as to who and why I 
have to knock on the head (maybe save the pim heads for Kevin).

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Thanks in advance for your opinions.
> 
> Best regards,
> Yuri
> 
> [1] http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.9_Release_Schedule