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

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

Thomas,

Again: Please do revert this and branch correctly first.
I think Vincent explained it quite well (see below).

Thanks,
andre

Am Mittwoch, den 23.07.2008, 16:00 +0200 schrieb Vincent Untz:
> Le mercredi 23 juillet 2008, à 10:55 +0100, Thomas Wood 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!
> 
> Well, the fact that there's no more GNOME 2.22.x release doesn't mean
> there won't be any new gnome-backgrounds 2.22.x release (although I'm
> the first one to admit that there won't be any new gnome-backgrounds
> 2.22.x release ;-)). I can also think of distributors who will download
> translations from trunk thinking they'll get translations for 2.22 while
> they'll get translations for 2.23...
> 
> So a stable branch is still welcome.
> 
> Vincent
> 
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