Re: Modified strings up to release date

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le lundi 22 septembre 2008 à 07:54 +0200, Johannes Schmid a écrit :
> Hi!
> 
> I know this is a problem but developers often simply don't have time to
> update docs very often and as such update them when we are in code
> freeze because they can't do anything else at that time.
> 
> As we have no freeze for docs this is completely OK and leads to better
> and up-to-date documentation in general. Though it might mean that there
> won't be fully translated docs in the .0 release but likely in the .1
> release used by most distributions.

I already pleaded with no success for a doc freeze at least 2-3 days
before each release (be it .0, .1 ...). It's simply a question of
respect for translators. But as long as GNOME doesn't consider
translated work as first-class citizen, it won't happen :-(

Claude

> On Mo, 2008-09-22 at 07:01 +0200, Jorge González González wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > there have been modifications of document strings up to the very same
> > date of release, this is very sad. We already talked about "freezing"
> > somehow doc translations so we could do our job, but developers keep
> > updating it up to today.
> > 
> > I know there is no freeze for docs, but still, you, developers, cannot
> > think we can translate like this.
> > 
> > Cheers.
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