Re: Proposal: earlier tarball deadlines

[mcatanzaro gnome org]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 10:39 pm, Alexandre Franke <afranke gnome org> 
wrote:
> Indeed. Moreover, in my experience, many maintainers consciously leave
> that time for translators and check the status of their module on
> Damned lies to see if there’s any team currently working on it and
> whether they need to wait just a tiny bit longer for that language to
> land in time. Kudos to all of those who do that, it is greatly
> appreciated.

Hm. We could solve this problem with a "translation deadline" set, say, 
two or three days before tarball deadline. Maintainers shouldn't 
release until after the translation deadline is passed, so any 
translations committed by that date would be guaranteed to get in. E.g.:

Wednesday: translation deadline
Thursday: first day to release
Saturday: tarball deadline
Wednesday (week two): overall release deadline

This wouldn't be needed after the .0 release (since we're in string 
freeze) or for early development releases... maybe only for the .0 
release? Or from [.90-.0]? I guess we could have it for every release, 
but that makes the schedule significantly more complex.

Just brainstorming.