Backport policy regarding new strings ?

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Mon Jan 21 11:42:23 EST 2013


Hi Yawar,

I believe I have already committed the patch for trunk in r22711. So 
with that I think the bug report can be closed.

Regards,

Geert

On 20-01-13 21:57, Yawar Amin wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> On 2013-01-20 14:55, Christian Stimming wrote:
>> [...]
>> It's up to you (or anyone who wants to commit). We don't have any agreement on
>> this right now.
>>
>> However, I would suggest not to add a new string in the 2.4.x branch. Most
>> probably, there will be no translator activity between now any another 2.4.x
>> release. This means the new string will show up untranslated. I think this
>> should be avoided, unless there are really strong reasons (for having an
>> untranslated string show up, rather than no new string and/or a string with
>> minor errors.)
>>
>> In the case of the new tip-of-the-day, I think there is not a strong reason to
>> have it in the 2.4 branch. Just add it to trunk and it will be in the next
>> release and translation series.
>>
>> Please feel free to add this suggestion into the wiki page... I currently
>> don't easily see how I can explain this there. Thanks!
> Thanks, I've added an explanation that should roughly cover our caution
> against adding strings
> (http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/index.php?title=String_Freeze&action=historysubmit&diff=9347&oldid=7259).
>
> Geert, let's go ahead with Christian's suggestion to commit the patch to
> trunk but not to 2.4
>
> Regards,
>
> Yawar
>
>



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