2.2.6 release date?

Charles Day cedayiv at gmail.com
Mon Jul 21 15:46:45 EDT 2008


On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Andreas Köhler <andi5.py at gmx.net> wrote:

> Hi Christian,
>
> On Mo, 2008-07-21 at 20:48 +0200, Christian Stimming wrote:
> > Am Montag, 21. Juli 2008 02:07 schrieb Andreas Köhler:
> > > Hi Christian,
> > >
> > > On So, 2008-07-20 at 22:34 +0200, Christian Stimming wrote:
> > > > Am Sonntag, 20. Juli 2008 12:30 schrieb Andreas Köhler:
> > > > > Christian, IIRC there have been some string additions in the latest
> > > > > months.  Do you think we could update the po files accordingly,
> once
> > > > > everything has been backported?
> > > >
> > > > There are 3 new strings in the current 2.2 branch. We can update the
> po
> > > > files, but this doesn't change anything with respect to the upcoming
> > > > release.
> > > >
> > > > However, if Charles' great series of QIF importer patches will
> eventually
> > > > be back-ported, they will almost surely introduce or change a whole
> bunch
> > > > of strings. This means after the back-porting of Charles' QIF patch
> > > > series, we need to give the translators a 2.2-branch string freeze of
> at
> > > > least another week, until the actual 2.2.6 release can be tagged.
> > >
> > > Hm, I will try to finish the backporting tomorrow evening (no sleep
> > > again), but I would like to avoid deferring the release any further.
>  Do
> > > you really think that is necessary if those changes go in?
> >
> > Right now the 2.2 branch has 10 new or changed ("fuzzy") strings
> altogether
> > compared to 2.2.5. I've just uploaded a translation template to
> > http://www.gnucash.org/gnucash.pot but I'm unsure how many translators
> will
> > actually listen to gnucash-devel. 10 new strings are still tolerable,
> though,
> > which means the upcoming weekend should be fine for a release.
>
> Please note that I have not finished the backport yet!  I was going to
> continue today and have them up at some point this evening/night.
>
> I am sorry for the confusion.
>

I can confirm that there are new strings still to come from some of the QIF
changes that have not been backported yet. I'm not sure of the number, but I
would guess at least 10 new strings at a minimum.


> Ciao,
> -- andi5
>
>
-Charles


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