Re: Bug #115289

[Tino Meinen <a t meinen chello nl>]

I must agree with Christian here.

String freezes are not meant for the sake of keeping the precious 100%
for the translation teams. People who say that, misunderstand the
purpose of the freeze badly and misunderstand the goal of a translation
team too.  Christian has explained perfectly why we have a sting freeze
and what happens when people break it.
I think everybody agrees on this point.

Breakage of the freeze is only allowed if there is a regression.
This bug fix is not fixing a regression; It improves a (bad) situation. 
Those kind of fixes are for new development. So please apply the fix to
(early) 2.5.x and not to 2.4.x
Those strings *will* be translated when 2.5.0 comes out.

Tino Meinen

Op di 26-08-2003, om 23:00 schreef Abel Cheung:
> On 2003-08-26(Tue) 22:38:58 +0200, Christian Rose wrote:
> > tis 2003-08-26 klockan 22.21 skrev Christian Rose:
> > > Kjartan of course might disagree with my opinion, in that case so be it,
> > > but I remain utterly convinced that adding hundreds of messages to GNOME
> > > 2.4 at this point in time, or even after 2.4.0 is released, is a bad
> > > idea, for the same reasons as why we delayed the intltoolizing of most
> > > schemas files from the GNOME 2.2 string freeze period until GNOME 2.3.
> 
> At this point, I think I should stop here. It's wasting everybody's time
> (including mine), while more useful work could have been done. I have
> laid out my opinions clearly:
> 
> 1. This is more a UI bug fix rather than random changes/additions.
> 2. Translators should have enough time to work on it as there should be
>    some months before 2.4.1 is out.
> 
> Now it's everybody's time to voice their opinions. I would not (and
> should not) reply to this thread anymore.
> 
> Abel