Fran�ois Pinard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [Hrvoje Niksic]
>
> > It still seems to me that it would be best to let the translators get
> > the POT file after the release, when it is guaranteed not to change,
> > hand as many translations as possible to the maintainer, and have a
> > "translations" release afterwards.
>
> You will wait forever to get all translations
I won't. After a reasonable period of time, like two weeks, the
"translation-only" release would be released. It would be the best
thing if new "translation-only" releases could be released whenever
enough new or updated translations accumulated. In fact, these
releases needn't even be issued by the package maintainer himself!
*That* would be allowing things to flow.
> In any case, I'm progressively getting out of the Translation
> Project coordination. You might have better luck convincing the new
> coordinators. For one, I do not think that a double release will
> really solve any problem, that a careful prerelease would not have
> been able to solve.
But see above. What I propose -- continuous translation releases --
cannot be matched by a prerelease process (unless the prerelease
process leaves the code in the deep freeze for ages).
We seem to have a misunderstanding: you seem to think that I expect
the impossible from the translators, whereas all I want is to
establish a process that would enable them to issue translations of a
well-defined release, *and have them used with that release*. I
believe this hasn't been done before.
It's a shame that you're leaving. I hope you will remain around to
guide your successors.
