Clytie Siddall wrote: > To: l10n, releases > CC: mac-porting > > Hello everyone :) > > I am very concerned about the current three-month release interval. > When I first arrived here, with our fairly complete interface > translation, I was met on the lists with a mélange of information > about impending version 2.0.4 and upcoming version 2.1. That was > confusing, and I had to filter out all the stuff about 2.0.4 and > focus on 2.1. > > 2.1 has just been officially released, but there are still QA issues > for different teams and architectures. I hope to release our (vi) 2.1 > builds fairly soon, but there is at least one pan-language stopper > bug (on Mac Intel), and a fair bit of specific work to do yet. > > And the translation deadline for OpenOffice.org 2.2 is January 18th, > only a month away! > > So what do I do? Abandon 2.1 and work on the translation updates for > 2.2? Finish 2.1 and not be ready for 2.2? > > We have a set of major goals for 2.2, including translating all the > Help section (nearly half a million words) and improving support > information (docs, website, spellchecker etc.) in general. On this > time-scale, we'll be lucky if we get even the interface update in.
Translating Help from scratch takes about 300 full working days for one man and some specific knowledge is also needed. Depends how many people you have, but one minor release cycle for all Help sounds suspicious. :) ain --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
