Information about the gnome-2-6 string freeze

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

There seems to be some common misunderstandings about the string freeze
in GNOME 2.6 code.

The string freeze doesn't mean it's entirely impossible to mark a few
strings for translation, or even add or change a few strings, when
fixing bugs in the stable branch.
It just means that there is a need to *get approval* first to do so. How
to get approval is described on the
http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/tasks.html#ApprovingFreezeBreaks
page.

Kjartan and I just wanted to make this clear, as it seems that some
seemingly essential bugfixes have not been made on the gnome-2-6 branch
in the assumption that any string marking, string changes, or string
additions would never be allowed there, which is in fact not the case.


Christian