Re: Modified strings up to release date

["Jorge González" <aloriel gmail com>]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 08:57, Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net> wrote:
> Le lundi 22 septembre 2008 à 07:54 +0200, Johannes Schmid a écrit :
>> Hi!
>>
>> I know this is a problem but developers often simply don't have time to
>> update docs very often and as such update them when we are in code
>> freeze because they can't do anything else at that time.
>>
>> As we have no freeze for docs this is completely OK and leads to better
>> and up-to-date documentation in general. Though it might mean that there
>> won't be fully translated docs in the .0 release but likely in the .1
>> release used by most distributions.
>
> I already pleaded with no success for a doc freeze at least 2-3 days
> before each release (be it .0, .1 ...). It's simply a question of
> respect for translators. But as long as GNOME doesn't consider
> translated work as first-class citizen, it won't happen :-(
yes, I also see at as a question of respect, perhaps we could do some
spam, we are quite a lot of translators ;)

>
> Claude
>
>> On Mo, 2008-09-22 at 07:01 +0200, Jorge González González wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > there have been modifications of document strings up to the very same
>> > date of release, this is very sad. We already talked about "freezing"
>> > somehow doc translations so we could do our job, but developers keep
>> > updating it up to today.
>> >
>> > I know there is no freeze for docs, but still, you, developers, cannot
>> > think we can translate like this.
>> >
>> > Cheers.
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