Re: [Tracker] throttling (on battery)

[Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it>]

Il giorno mar, 10/02/2009 alle 08.25 +0100, Michael Biebl ha scritto:

> As this probably includes the GUI and translatable strings, this
> brings me to another issue:
> translations
>
> If I run "make update-po" in po/, I see a lot of fuzzy and untranslated strings.
>
> Luca, what's the best way again to ping translators to update the translations?

Interact with them on gnome-i18n mailing list. Any l10n/i18n related
announce should appear on this list. Of course not all translator
subscribed, but at least local team coordinator and other. I suggest to
start sending a message like:

        Tracker will have a new major release within XX months, with a
        lot of new exciting feature, but new translatable stings too.
        
        Please stay tuned and start updated your PO files (but note
        translatable string still may change before final release).

If you like, I could send it.

But I also suggest to post the announce of the incoming 0.7.0 release
some blogs, better if aggregated on planet.gnome.org. This should
increase visibility :)

> Martyn et al: Will we have disruptive changes in 0.6.9x or do we have
> sort of a string freeze for 0.6.9x and does it makes sense to ping the
> translators?

The GNOME release have two phases: string announce period and string
freeze period. In the first period you can change or add translatable
string, but you have to announce this to translators on gnome-i18n
mailing list.

Honestly I think tracker still needs some UI changes: current code is
great on "server" side, but I think it needs to be polished on client
side: for example, see 
      * bug 564038 on applet popup menu items 
      * bug 564035 on click on applet [HIG]
      * my previous email about merging preferences dialog
      * bug 563909 canonicalize command line options[1]
      * other?? I've just listed the ones I reported or I know

So, I think by now could be good announce a new tracker version will
come, then you could collect all UI/string related bugs to fix, finally
declare the string freeze once those bugs are closed. And, of course,
plan a 0.7.1 release one month after the 0.7.0, keeping the string
freeze or announcing changed strings on gnome-i18n.

[1] I didn't have time for tracker in the last months, this bug was
closed, but I think that was simply applied the proposed patch, while
similar changes should be applied to other command line utilities too :(