Re: String additions to 'ekiga.master'

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le vendredi 04 juin 2010 à 10:08 +0200, Eugen Dedu a écrit :
> On 03/06/10 20:43, Andre Klapper wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, den 03.06.2010, 20:30 +0200 schrieb Eugen Dedu:
> >> We do not yet know which version will be released with gnome 2.30.  So I
> >> reverted the change, sorry for bothering you.
> >
> > GNOME 2.30 was already released two months ago. According to
> > http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.30/2.30.0/sources/ Ekiga 3.2.6
> > was used. The GNOME schedule can be found at
> > http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointThirtyone/ .
> >
> >> I still do not understand why this constrain.  It seems to me that the
> >> natural solution is that 1-2 months before each release, the branch (or
> >> the HEAD if the branch does not exist) enters string freeze, and before
> >> that everything is allowed.
> >
> > Exactly.
> >
> >> This gives translators 1-2 months to work
> >> on translations.  But we are now four months away from the release and
> >> we cannot make string changes for this release...
> >
> > You did not branch Ekiga yet after GNOME 2.30 was released. And all the
> > branches of those apps used for GNOME 2.30 are string frozen for all
> > times and one day.
> > So branch Ekiga for gnome-2-30, gnome-2-30 will be used for more stable
> > releases of Ekiga in GNOME 2.30, and feel free to changes any strings in
> > git master which will be branched to gnome-3-0 in a few months. Or so.
> 
> To resume: if I make a branch called gnome-2-30 from current stable 
> branch (gnome-2-26), it will automatically become current stable branch 
> and will be string frozen forever, while master becomes ok for string 
> changes until 1-2 months before gnome 3.0, cf. its roadmap.  Is all that 
> right?

The reasoning is right, but as you told us that GNOME 2.30 shipped ekiga
from the stable gnome-2-26 branch, you do not have to create yet another
gnome-2-30 stable branch.
I just fixed l10n.gnome.org to consider gnome-2-26 as the branch used
for GNOME 2.30. So you can now freely make string changes in master.

In the future, please inform gnome-i18n and fix JHBuild moduleset [1] to
reflect using a stable branch for a specific GNOME release.

Claude

[1]
http://git.gnome.org/browse/jhbuild/tree/modulesets/gnome-suites-2.30.modules