Re: l10n issues (Re: GNOME Releng web site)

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Karl Eichwalder <keichwa gmx net> writes:

> l10n (localization): Even if we try to be ready in time some work will
> be left after the release (add missing translations, improve
> translations: consistency is one of the keywords).
> 
> That's why I'd like to ask to re-release all major packages after a
> certain period of time (a month?) even if there was no bug to fix.  This
> would make us translators happy :)
> 
> Yes, I know some package maintainers are brave souls already and have
> done this tedious job for the 1.2 series ;-)

I think we should try very hard to get translations to 100%
(at least translations with sufficiently enthusiastic 
translators) FOR the release.

This is something we've done bad at before.

The main thing we need to do to accomplish this are:

 a) A few weeks to a month before the release (or so), we declare a
    string freeze.

 b) We make tarballs, give them to the translators, and tell them
    "these will be the po files for GNOME 1.4"

 c) We tell developers, "if you change your strings, we will break 
    your kneecaps."

Regards,
                                        Owen