Re: Preparing to release F-Spot 0.7.0

[Ruben Vermeersch <ruben savanne be>]

On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 17:35 +0700, Jorge González wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 16:20, Ruben Vermeersch <ruben savanne be> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 11:17 +0200, Ruben Vermeersch wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I'm preparing to release F-Spot 0.7.0 in a week or so, when we get most
> >> bugs ironed out. there are a few (but not much) string changes since
> >> 0.6.2. Now is the time to update translations for 0.7.0, if you would
> >> like to get them in!
> >
> >
> > Oh and I forgot to mention the most important fact: Harold Schreckengost
> > converted all our user help to Mallard and massively actualized it.
> > There were only a few string overlapping so I'm afraid translations will
> > need to be redone (sorry for that, blame shaunm!).
> please, do you realize one week before the release to update a module
> and to translate its whole documentation from zero is almost
> impossible. When releasing a module, could you please give some more
> time, otherwise translations wont be ready.

Don't worry, this is the first release in a development cycle, so we're
not even expecting translations to be anywhere near ready. I fully
understand that this stuff takes time.

We are going to stabilize towards a major release near the end of
summer. That release will be shipped in distributions. When that comes,
I'll be enforcing a formal string freeze period and announce this much
further in advance. Is something like a month reasonable?