Re: RFA: start of i18n

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com>]

> Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 11:51:03 -0400
>> From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
> 
>> > 
>> > Speaking as a translator, freezing the strings before the release is a
>> > good practice.  It would be nice if GDB followed it.
> 
>> 
>> How much before?  1 week, 1 month, ...
> 
> 
> A couple of weeks at least.  It depends on the number of messages to
> translate, but I expect GDB to have a lot of them.
> 
> 
>> 	-	branch gdb
>> 	-	week later, freeze strings
>> 
>> that leaves ~4-6 weeks.
> 
> 
> That might not be a good idea, since freezing strings only a week
> after the branch is too early; chances are later changes will have to
> modify the messages to some extent.
> 
> It's better to leave 2 weeks extra between the day you are confident
> a release is ready and the actual release.  Then just resync with the
> Translation Project database before you tar the release.

Ok.  Lets try it.  For 5.3 (~sep) perhaphs not seriously(1), but for 6.0 
(~jan).

Andrew

(1) I'm going to assume that 5.3 won't be very i18n.