Hi Translation Teams, we are planning to do a release of the stable 2.8 branch of GIMP at the end of October. The GIMP 2.8 series does only get bug fixes, no new features, so its strings are pretty much considered frozen all the time - actually, it was quite surprising to find that a few of them had changed recently. We're not really used to formal string freezes yet, but will make an extra effort to keep the strings of the gimp-2-8 branch frozen until 2016-10-27. For most of the previously complete or almost-complete translations, the number of fuzzy or untranslated strings is quite low, and it would be nice to see complete translations for these. Please note that unlike some other applications, GIMP uses multiple po files for various parts of its UI. The GIMP docs are kept in their own git module, gimp-help-2. We are currently working on getting them built again. They follow their own release "schedule", so if you are translating these as well, please don't feel obligated to finish them in time for the 2.8.20 release. Pointers -------- GIMP 2.8 releases are done from the gimp-2-8 branch of the gimp git module: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/tree/?h=gimp-2-8 L10N Module statistics https://l10n.gnome.org/module/gimp/#gimp-2-8 Distribution ------------ GIMP 2.8 releases enjoy a large number of users. As GIMP is a cross-platform application, the releases are made available to users on the Microsoft Windows and Apple OS X / macOS platforms via packages we distribute directly from https://www.gimp.org, so any translation updates done for a release will reach a bug audience pretty fast. With Linux distros, it depends on how their release schedules are and /or how they handle package updates. Debian Testing, for example, has recently added the packages for 2.8.18, which we had released earlier this year. -- Regards, Michael GPG: 96A8 B38A 728A 577D 724D 60E5 F855 53EC B36D 4CDD
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