Hi, The schedule for Lucid Lynx appears to have changed radically in comparison to the previous few releases. I haven't seen any discussion of this on this list, did I miss it somewhere else? There isn't a reservation on the page about whether it has been finally decided on or not, but I'm hoping that some discussion is going to be possible because the revised schedule is unworkable for the documentation team, and probably for translators too, as far as I can see
I'm setting out what I see as the problems here. In the last three releases (Hardy, Jaunty, Karmic), we have had two weeks between FeatureFreeze (FF) and UserInterfaceFreeze (UIF), and three weeks between UIF and DocumentationStringFreeze (DSF). In Lucid however we have FF and UIF on the same day, and DSF one week later. The main problem for the documentation team is that a five week period between FF and DSF is now squeezed into one week. The upshot is that the documentation team has potentially one week to document new features or string changes in Lucid. >From the documentation team's point of view, we need a decent period (2-3 weeks) between FF and UIF so that we can give ourselves a target of getting major new documentation of new features ready by UIF. We then need a further decent period between UIF and DSF (2-3 weeks) so that we can focus on ensuring that all the strings referred to in the documentation match those used in the software. Translators of documentation also get a pretty raw deal. The NonLanguagePackTranslationDeadline was two weeks after DSF. Now it's just one week after. So translators then have one week to translate any new documentation, which could include major documentation of new features. Again, I'd like to be in a position to assure translators that major new documentation is in place by UIF, so they can start work from then, and then assure them of a hard freeze at DSF, where they can focus on completing any last strings. At the moment, that simply isn't possible. I also see, although this doesn't directly affect the documentation team, that the LanguagePackTranslationDeadline is in week 20, instead of week 26 (Karmic), week 24 (Jaunty) or week 25 (Hardy) which gives them between 4 and 6 fewer weeks to translate software. I'd really like to see the timetable used in previous releases restored. Looking forward to hearing your views. -- Matthew East http://www.mdke.org gnupg pub 1024D/0E6B06FF -- ubuntu-translators mailing list ubuntu-translators@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators
