Re: Announcing a pilot for docs release schedule with string freeze

Hannie Dumoleyn <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.documentation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 16-03-18 18:17, Petr Kovar wrote:
> Translators,
>
> With the new stable release out, I wanted to ask you to provide feedback on
> the user docs string freeze pilot. Did you find it useful and worth
> continuing?
>
> My take on this is that with a limited number of content changes affecting
> user docs (and thus translations), having multiple string freeze periods
> during the cycle is probably a bit of an overkill. Might be better to only
> freeze the strings before we release the last stable point release, for
> instance? Or maybe drop the whole freeze idea?
>
> Let me know your thoughts!
>
> Thanks,
> pk
>
>
> On Sun, 6 Aug 2017 19:58:55 +0200
> Petr Kovar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Based on community input [1], the docs team plans to run a 3.26 release
>> pilot program for docs string freeze that would allow translators more time
>> to update their user docs translations (primarily gnome-user-docs).
>>
>> I've put the details here:
>>
>> https://wiki.gnome.org/DocumentationProject/Tasks/ReleaseSchedule
>>
>> Consider it a draft and let me know your comments or questions. Based on
>> the feedback, we will evaluate the results when the 3.26 cycle ends and
>> decide on the future course of actions.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> pk
>>
>> [1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-doc-list/2017-May/msg00010.html
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Hi Petr,

I would be in favour of a string freeze just before the release of the 
next stable version (same as GUI string freeze).

Hannie
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