Re: Preparing to release F-Spot 0.7.0

[Jorge González <aloriel gmail com>]

Hi,

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 12:41, Ruben Vermeersch <ruben savanne be> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 17:35 +0700, Jorge González wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 16:20, Ruben Vermeersch <ruben savanne be> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 11:17 +0200, Ruben Vermeersch wrote:
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> I'm preparing to release F-Spot 0.7.0 in a week or so, when we get most
>> >> bugs ironed out. there are a few (but not much) string changes since
>> >> 0.6.2. Now is the time to update translations for 0.7.0, if you would
>> >> like to get them in!
>> >
>> >
>> > Oh and I forgot to mention the most important fact: Harold Schreckengost
>> > converted all our user help to Mallard and massively actualized it.
>> > There were only a few string overlapping so I'm afraid translations will
>> > need to be redone (sorry for that, blame shaunm!).
>> please, do you realize one week before the release to update a module
>> and to translate its whole documentation from zero is almost
>> impossible. When releasing a module, could you please give some more
>> time, otherwise translations wont be ready.
>
> Don't worry, this is the first release in a development cycle, so we're
> not even expecting translations to be anywhere near ready. I fully
> understand that this stuff takes time.
>
> We are going to stabilize towards a major release near the end of
> summer. That release will be shipped in distributions. When that comes,
> I'll be enforcing a formal string freeze period and announce this much
> further in advance. Is something like a month reasonable?
A month is perfectly reasonable. Many thanks.

Cheers.

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