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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: [RFC] New string freeze policy in stable branch
From:       Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date:       2012-10-03 20:40:32
Message-ID: 3021794.cyStMBfYM4 () xps
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El Dimecres, 3 d'octubre de 2012, a les 21:33:36, Burkhard Lück va escriure:
> Hi translators,
> 
> reading today a sentence like "bug fix not possible during the 4.9.x cycle
> because of the string freeze" twice in
> http://freininghaus.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/dolphin-bug-fixes-in-kde-4-9-2/
> and seeing similar statements every now and then I think our string freeze
> policy in stable branch is wrong.
> 
> So I propose to change the policy to:
> 
> "No string freeze after the release of a version x.y.0 in the stable branch"
> 
> Reasons:
> 
> 1) Afair every request for an exception of the string freeze in stable gets
> an OK here on this list
> 
> 2) We have doc backports with 500-1000 strings somtimes every month, this
> seem to work well and no one complained here.
> 
> 2) Stable branch is feature frozen, so there won't be many new/changed
> strings.
> My guess is that we talk about a few hundred strings in the lifecycle of a
> major version with the new policy, peanuts compared to 99376 strings we have
> in stable branch actually.
> 
> 3) Better for our users, makes devels work easier and does not really harm
> the translation teams
> 
> What do you think?

That developers can't read or comprehend policies or are just lazy to ask for 
an excemption.

Cheers,
  Albert
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