Re: Minor comments about the release notes draft

["Lucas Rocha" <lucasr gnome org>]

Hi,

> > Was checking out the release notes draft.  Minor comments:
> >
> >   - "Ubuntu Linux" is a phrase not used by the Ubuntu project.  It
> > should either simply be "Ubuntu", or something like "Ubuntu GNU/Linux
> > distribution".
> >
> >   - Two of the images on the page are particularly large in file size.
> > rnintroduction-screenshot.png is 400kb and rnusers-eog.png is 580kb.
> > They are both very nice, but a bit largish for slower connections.
> > Given that rnintroduction-screenshot.png is visible on the first page of
> > the release notes, it may be worth replacing with something lighter.
> > Given that it's a scaled-down image anyway, makes sense to use a jpg
> > instead that takes 250kb from a quick test here.
> >
> >   - "The Release Notes are available in several languages..."  This
> > paragraph follows the one ending "You can learn more about the changes
> > that happened in GNOME 2.18 from its release notes."  It's probably just
> > me, but it would be more clear to replace it with "This release notes
> > are available in several languages...".
> >
> >   - Evince section doesn't say whether you can save the filled-in PDF
> > files.
> >
> >   - May want to link Cairo to its website as it's an external module.
> > Also, technically, "Cairo" should be replaced by "cairo graphics
> > library", not capitalized.
>
> Unfortunately, it's probably too late to fix those things (except for
> the images) since the release notes are string frozen too...
>
> I guess we can create an english translation (as usual) and put the
> fixes there, add comment for translators and send a mail to gnome-i18n
> so that all new translations have the fixes too.

Really? I didn't know. When was the release notes string freeze announced?

I think it's worth fixing those things and call for update in
gnome-i18n. We still have time.

--lucasr