Hi, On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 10:51:52AM +0100, Justin B Rye wrote: > People are talking about the Squeeze release notes being nearly > ready for a call for translations.
Then these people were certainly drunk or worse :-) > I hope they are remembering that before the call for translations > there needs to be a quick debian-l10n-english proofreading > run-through, and before *that* we need to come up with some factually > accurate content. An option to avoid last minute full proofreading/translation, as we experienced by the past for Lenny, might be to proofreading patches posted against release-notes. > When I look at the version on display at > http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/i386/release-notes/ I see > something so jam-packed with stale material that I wouldn't know > where to start reporting bugs, other than perhaps to recommend > throwing out chapter 2, chapter 3, much of chapter 4, chapter 5, and > of course appendix C. Julien Cristau from the release team is spotting issues and proposing updates. If you notice other issues, please don't hesitate to outline them. > Is there a version somewhere that's nearly ready? Last time it was > svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/ddp/manuals/trunk/release-notes, but if > that copy contains any improvements then I'm not spotting them. Because it doesn't contain many improvements yet. > It has always seemed to me that using a summary of the notable > differences between Release-A and Release-B as the basis for our > summary of the notable differences between Release-B and Release-C > is a rather effective labour-wasting strategy. Could you expand your idea ? You consider it would be easier to start from scratch ? -- Simon Paillard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
