On Tuesday 27 August 2002 19:39, Lauri Watts wrote: > > > What is the cut off date for changes to the kde 3.1 documentation, > > > http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/kde-3.1-release-plan.html > > > doesn't seem to mention it? > > > > I think that the last date for "i18n strings changes" applies to as well > > for the documentation, doesn't it? > > That will make it impossible for any future KDE release to ever have > documentation that is up to date with the GUI, if we must stop writing at > the time of the message freeze, and then the branch is frozen for future > documentation updates. Most of the applications are still undergoing GUI > changes even after this, although the message freeze does substantially > help slow that down.
You're right. > In the past, it's been pretty fluid, as much documentation as possible done > as soon as possible, and then a freeze on the documentation, depending on > it's state, around 2 weeks before the tagging. I didn't have any plans to > change this, do you think we need to? Should we set a documentation final > date now, in the schedule? If so, I think it should be around week 42, > according to the schedule at > http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/kde-3.1-release-plan.html Week 42 being included or excluded? I would suggest that we have weeks 42, 43 and 44 to translate the documentation. It leaves you weeks 31, 40 and 41 to write it. 3 weeks each, it sounds fair, no? ;-) I'm putting Dirk in the loop as he's the release master. Please keep him CC'ed. -- ?ric Bischoff
