Re: Modified strings up to release date

[Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org>]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 01:33:04PM +0200, Claude Paroz wrote:
> Le lundi 22 septembre 2008 à 12:04 +0200, Olav Vitters a écrit :
> > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 08:57:24AM +0200, Claude Paroz wrote:
> > > 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 :-(
> > 
> > Translated work is important. However, documentation has the issue that
> > it is often out of date. That should be solved before it is translated.
> 
> Yes, but that's two different problems that should be addressed
> separately.

How is it separate? Adding a freeze period means the docs will be even
more outdated as they are now. I do not see how this can be seen as a
separate problem.

> For well translated docs, a small freeze before the main releases is a
> good solution.
> For good and up-to-date documentation, we need to recruit more writers.

As we do not have enough writers, we avoid limiting the time they have
to write the documentation.

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Regards,
Olav