[kde-doc-english]KDE 3.1 Timetable

[Lauri Watts]

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On Wednesday 28 August 2002 10.06, Éric Bischoff wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 August 2002 19:39, Lauri Watts wrote:
> > > > What is the cut off date for changes to the kde 3.1 documentation,
> > > > http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/kde-3.1-release-plan.ht
> > > >ml doesn't seem to mention it?
> > >
> > > I think that the last date for "i18n strings changes" applies to as
> > > well for the documentation, doesn't it?
> >
> > That will make it impossible for any future KDE release to ever have
> > documentation that is up to date with the GUI, if we must stop writing at
> > the time of the message freeze, and then the branch is frozen for future
> > documentation updates.  Most of the applications are still undergoing GUI
> > changes even after this, although the message freeze does substantially
> > help slow that down.
>
> You're right.
>
> > In the past, it's been pretty fluid, as much documentation as possible
> > done as soon as possible, and then a freeze on the documentation,
> > depending on it's state, around 2 weeks before the tagging.  I didn't
> > have any plans to change this, do you think we need to?  Should we set a
> > documentation final date now, in the schedule?  If so, I think it should
> > be around week 42, according to the schedule at
> > http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/kde-3.1-release-plan.html
>
> Week 42 being included or excluded?
>
> I would suggest that we have weeks 42, 43 and 44 to translate the
> documentation. It leaves you weeks 31, 40 and 41 to write it. 3 weeks each,
> it sounds fair, no? ;-)
>
> I'm putting Dirk in the loop as he's the release master. Please keep him
> CC'ed.

This looks fine to me, I wonder if Malcolm would like to have say, week 42, 
for proofreading fixes?

Regards,
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Lauri Watts
KDE Documentation: http://i18n.kde.org/doc/
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