Re: Revisiting the translation freeze policies

[aca]

Hi,

I would like to help with the translation but it is unfortunate that
Filipino Language was not available. I hope I can be of service to other
Fedora initiative other than Translation.

Regards,

Alvin

On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Noriko Mizumoto 
wrote:
> Hi Randy,
> Sorry, I was bit of behind and gave improper comment previously. Now I
> think I caught up where we are. Let me do it again. Please see inline.
>
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 5:18 AM, Randy Barlow <
> [e-mail]> wrote:
> > Greetings!
> >
> > During Friday's FESCo meeting[0] we were asked to approve a change to
> > the release schedule to accommodate translation string freeze deadlines
> > that somehow got left out of the new "no-alphas" schedule.
> >
> > Several participants pointed out that Fedora has not enforced the
> > "string freeze" in many years, despite it being on the schedule until
> > now. Thus, we would like to revisit the string freeze policy to
> > determine if it is still valuable, and if so, how can/should it be
> > enforced?
> >
> > We'd like to explore a couple of questions:
> > What exact things are frozen? Things like comps make sense to follow
> > Fedora freezes, but do things like anaconda? or system-config-printer?
>
> I've read through those, and it seems to me still valid and important for
> Translation team.
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N_Freezes#string_freeze
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Software_String_Freeze_Policy
>
> For anaconda or s-c-printer, 'string freeze policy' should work. Most
> likely we've been giving +2. If any particular concern on the developers
> side, please share.
> > Can we automate some way of enforcing or at least detecting when
> > something changes a string in the freeze?
>
> At last G11N FAD, i18n team raised their hand to explore some possibility
> of developing a tool for detection (String Breakage monitoring by Jens and
> Akira). Could you kindly check with i18n team as well?  Or Pravin can
> connect?
>
> G11N FAD Tokyo Summary: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17LU-
> PmtuirbGd7wfxUuKTz7X6fsv82PVPgZaDELi4js/edit#heading=h.3gzh0ubdx8oy
>
> noriko
> > This ticket tracks the issue:
> >
> > https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1777
> >
> > [0]
> > https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/fesco/fesco.2017-09-22-16.00.html
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