Re: String additions to 'gnome-backgrounds.HEAD'

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le mer 23 jui 2008 11:55:49 CEST, Thomas Wood <thos gnome org> a écrit:

> On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 22:02 -0300, Leonardo F. Fontenelle wrote:
> > Em Ter, 2008-07-22 às 22:48 +0200, Claude Paroz escreveu:
> > > Le mar 22 jui 2008 22:09:39 CEST, Thomas Wood <thos gnome org> a écrit:
> [...]
> > > The problem is that strings from gnome-backgrounds didn't change for
> > > long, and are freezed from GNOME 2.12 on!
> > > If you want to change/add strings, you'll have to branch
> > > gnome-backgrounds first (probably a gnome-2-22 branch).
> > >
> >
> > Maybe there's no need for branching (this time). GNOME 2.22.3 was
> > already released, so this "string freeze break" won't affect anyone. It
> > surely would be unnacceptable if the strings were added before we
> > released GNOME 2.22.3. IIRC, gnome-user-docs don't branch because it's
> > updated only after GNOME 2.xx.3 is released.
>
> Exactly, I wasn't planning on doing any concurrent development, so I
> didn't see any need to branch. I specifically timed my changes so they
> where after the last stable release of 2.22.
>
> We are currently in a period where there are no string freezes in place
> (except perhaps for stable branches, where they exist). I suggest that
> your string freeze notification script is slightly broken for the case
> that a module does not make a stable branch!
>
> Regards,
>
> Thomas

Please read
http://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/HandlingStringFreezes

Read especially the section "What happens if I break the string freeze
without approval?" :-)

More seriously, once a module's trunk is stringfreezed, only the branch
operation can "defreeze" it. That's the policy we try to enforce for
years now.

Claude