Re: Revisiting the translation freeze policies
Noriko Mizumoto <[email protected]>
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Hi Randy, Sorry, I was bit of behind and gave improper comment previously. Now I think I caught up where we are. Let me do it again. Please see inline. On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 5:18 AM, Randy Barlow <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings! > > During Friday's FESCo meeting[0] we were asked to approve a change to > the release schedule to accommodate translation string freeze deadlines > that somehow got left out of the new "no-alphas" schedule. > > Several participants pointed out that Fedora has not enforced the > "string freeze" in many years, despite it being on the schedule until > now. Thus, we would like to revisit the string freeze policy to > determine if it is still valuable, and if so, how can/should it be > enforced? > > We'd like to explore a couple of questions: > > * What exact things are frozen? Things like comps make sense to follow > Fedora freezes, but do things like anaconda? or system-config-printer? > I've read through those, and it seems to me still valid and important for Translation team. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N_Freezes#string_freeze https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Software_String_Freeze_Policy For anaconda or s-c-printer, 'string freeze policy' should work. Most likely we've been giving +2. If any particular concern on the developers side, please share. > > * Can we automate some way of enforcing or at least detecting when > something changes a string in the freeze? > At last G11N FAD, i18n team raised their hand to explore some possibility of developing a tool for detection (String Breakage monitoring by Jens and Akira). Could you kindly check with i18n team as well? Or Pravin can connect? G11N FAD Tokyo Summary: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17LU-PmtuirbGd7wfxUuKTz7X6fsv82PVPgZaDELi4js/edit#heading=h.3gzh0ubdx8oy noriko > > This ticket tracks the issue: > > https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1777 > > > [0] > https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/fesco/fesco.2017-09-22-16.00.html > _______________________________________________ > trans mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ trans mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]