Den 17-06-2019 kl. 22:00 skrev Simon Steinbeiss:
Hi,
let me clarify some misunderstandings.
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 9:47 PM scootergrisen <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
My concern is that if there was 5½ years between 4.12 and 4.14 it seems
like if i miss something like a spelling mistake in the translation i
might have to wait another 5½ years for the next release to fix it.
I dont know about 4.12.X.
It seems Xfce About always says 4.12 no matter what version i use.
As Xfce is modular each component receives its own updates. Only the
MAJOR.MINOR part of the version is subject of a platform release.
Everything that is part of the PATCH part of the version is
per-component. You can see this well in the 4.14 development cycle,
illustrated e.g. here: https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.14/xfce_4.14pre1
Each component has a different amount of patch releases.
The same goes for stable / maintenance releases in e.g. the 4.12 series.
One of the latest components to receive a 4.12 maintenance release was
xfdesktop, see here:
https://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/tag/?h=xfdesktop-4.12.5
So all translations you did between 4.12.0 and 4.12.5 reached the
end-users (depending obviously on when distros do releases and when what
is packaged).
But last say we skip to the 4.14 release and then i make new changes to
the translation. How long will it take until those new changes gets
into
a Xfce release?
As outlined above that depends on when a dev does a patch release for
the component he or she maintains.
How come on https://xfce.org/ it says the latest news is 4.12 if there
have been 4.12.x releases after that?
Again, 4.12 (MAJOR.MINOR) is only the platform release and does not
concern itself with the individual patch releases of components. I
understand that the website could be more up-to-date. We try to do that
via the blog, which is an aggregation of developer several blogs. That's
where you get the post-4.12 information.
Feel free to read through our release model, maybe this helps!
https://www.xfce.org/about/releasemodel
Cheers
Simon
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If i as a new user go to https://xfce.org/ and read and click Download
it says 4.12 is the latest version and if i want newer i can build it.
http://archive.xfce.org/xfce/4.12/ says last modified 28-Feb-2015 21:07
so i think like... oh that project is properly not being maintained
anymore if that is the latest version 5½ years ago.
I think my confusing is partly because Xfce About dialog always just
says 4.12. So i think everything is just the same when it says 4.12.
Should it not says 4.12.5?
I have made a bug to improve the About dialog details.
I dont know how it could be written better on the website but if there
have been these releases:
4.12.1
4.12.2
4.12.3
4.12.4
4.12.5
After 4.12 then it would be fine seeing that so you have 1 big news per
year or something like that instead of 5½ between each big news.
Like is the latest big news was 4.12.5 (2018-2019 or when ever) then it
would at least show that something is going on.
It does say lastest news.
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