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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Message freeze?
From:       Francois-Xavier Duranceau <duranceau () free ! fr>
Date:       2000-07-26 17:53:56
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Thomas Diehl wrote:
> 
> 
> >> What will be the policy with updated translations after KDE2 is released?
> >This is a rather interesting issue especially regarding the docs. All
> >the docs won't be translated in the native languages for KDE 2.0
> >(because the english version are written very late). Would it possible
> >be possible to add in khelpcenter the ability to download the newly
> >translated docs (post KDE 2.0 release) from a predefined 'KDE doc
> >server'?
> 
> German doc translation has not even started again after the DocBook
> conversion. To my knowledge, the French translation is the only one
> that _really_ did (sorry if I overlooked somebody). So yes, it would be
> fine if something like your suggestion could be implemented. But I'm
> afraid the feature freeze will keep this from happening. Maybe Matthias
> (or Stephan when he's back from vacation) can comment on this.
> 
IMO releasing a major version without docs is a BUG!! We really have to
decide what KDE means: a collection of apps or a full environment (apps,
qwhatsthis, docs...).

> OTOH, I don't think KDE 2.1 will be too long after the 2.0 release.
> This should be a good occasion to get the missing docs in (and the many
> new languages where translation is starting just now).
> 
So 2.1 will contain 2.0 docs and 2.1 docs will be in 2.2? This doesn't
sound very professionnal.

FX
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