Hi In my opinion it is a bit confusing to have no release between november 2018 and august 2020 and then have release 1.4.0, 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 in a few weeks. Package builders and users who are not following this list won't have a clue why.
Stay safe Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 09:42:08 -0700 > From: Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu> > To: Friedrich Beckmann <friedrich.beckm...@gmx.de> > Cc: John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au>, pspp-dev > <pspp-dev@gnu.org> > Subject: Re: Give a 1.4.1-rc1 prelease to translation.org and wait? > Message-ID: > <CAA_G9+iQ1PHqaF5bXkOR+Cf5Et= > ldu6n1skdp2mjdf2yho9...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > I know two ways to deal with translations and releases: > 1. Put out a prerelease for translators to work with, give them a few > weeks, and then do the release with the updated translations included. > 2. Put out a release and give it to the translators at the same time, then > do a second minor release a little later with the updated translations. > We used to do #1, but I favor #2 these days, because it likely gives users > an earlier opportunity to use the new release, even if some of the > translations aren't ready yet. Also, there will always be some translations > that have not caught up, even if we give a few weeks in case #1. > > So, I am inclined to release 1.4.1 and make it available to the translation > project, and then after translations get updated we can release 1.4.2. > > What do you think? > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 9:09 AM Friedrich Beckmann < > friedrich.beckm...@gmx.de> > wrote: > > > I think we can still fix some stuff for the 1.4.1 release but my concern > > is that > > the translations are missing. Listening to Harry: > > > > > Yes the release version is always a bit more work. And actually nobody > > whats them because they need the translations too which is included in > > later test versions. I usually take a version af a few weeks later as > teh > > released version. > > > > Therefore the translators need a pre release but that should not trigger > > all integrators to make a new release for the distributions. Of course > this > > only makes sense when we think that the changes will not affect the > > translation strings. > > > > Fritz > > > > > Am 04.09.2020 um 17:10 schrieb John Darrington < > > j...@darrington.wattle.id.au>: > > > > > > Something wierd is going on with how the pspp.pot file is generated. > I > > will > > > investigate this tomorrow. This will surely have an effect on whatever > > we > > > release next. > > > >
