F10 Schedule Problem for Translators

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:10:34 -0400
Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi FESCO and Rel-eng,
> 
> Just passing along a message.
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2008-July/msg00080.html
> They pointed out during their meeting and here on f-d-l that the
> feature freeze and string freeze dates are the same day.  This is
> problematic for them because it leaves no time for package
> maintainers rebuild with translations.  They seem a bit upset about
> this happening again.
> 
> Is there is anything we can do to help out the translators?

Well, as notting pointed out, this is a bit late to change in this
cycle, as we would have had to move feature freeze up to before now. ;( 

I would say: 

- Lets try and revisit this in the next cycle and adjust ?

and

- In this cycle, we should allow updates into the freeze that contain
_only_ translation fixes? This would need to be communicated to both
translators and package maintainers tho. 

Just my 2c. 

kevin
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> Warren Togami
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> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: F10 Schedule
> Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:08:52 +1000
> From: Noriko Mizumoto <noriko at redhat.com>
> Reply-To: Development discussions related to Fedora
> <fedora-devel-list at redhat.com>
> To: fedora-devel-list at redhat.com
> 
> Hi devel team
> 
> I am Noriko Mizumoto, Fedora Japanese translator of Fedora
> Localization Project.
> 
> Recently I've learnt that the F10 schedule has been delayed three
> weeks with some reason. And I believe that this must be a great
> chance to ask you to have a little more adjustment on the schedule,
> which we've been asking for long but never happened.
> 
> Currently 'Feature freeze' and 'String freeze' are same day. This
> makes no room for translators to work. If we could have the string
> freeze 5 days before the feature freeze, all translators would be
> happy to complete their work.
> 
> It would be much appreciated if you could once consider this matter.
> 
> Thank you for listening to the end.
> 
> noriko
> 
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