Translation Status: Proposed end of String Freeze

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Thu Jul 20 11:09:16 EDT 2006


I would propose that 2.0.1 not have changed strings, but we allow it
for 2.0.2.  But that's just my personal opinion.  What do you the rest
of you think?

-derek

Quoting Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de>:

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> Dear Translators et al,
>
> before the 2.0.0 release we had a particular "String Freeze" period.
> This was a time when all strings were fixed. It was guaranteed that no
> string changes occur. This should help to offer complete translations at
> the 2.0.0 release, and several languages reached this challenging mark!
> Congrats.
>
> Now 2.0.0 is out. We *could* have a string freeze for even some more
> releases, but actually I think this isn't really necessary. Instead, I
> propose the developers should now be allowed to make all queued string
> changes (e.g. http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/14493 and
> http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/14546 ) iff these changes went
> through the normal backporting audit.
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development_Process
>
> We *could* have some particular 2.0.x releases which have a string
> freeze beforehand, and others without it, but I think the minimal amount
> of string changes don't justify this additional bookkeeping overhead. So
> I simply propose an end to the string freeze. Other ideas? Proposals?
>
> I've updated http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation_Status accordingly.
>
> Christian
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