[kde-doc-english]RFC: Semi-Freezing Docs

[Lauri Watts]

Here's a proposal to cut down the number of inconsequential fuzzies (the 
ones that correct errors in the english docs, but are not affecting the 
translations, other than taking much time to mark done.)

Assuming tagging for the final RC is still scheduled for the 4th of 
March, and the Final for the 8th:

Free-for-all until say, 10pm Monday evening UTC (25th February), and we 
generate templates then for all the documentation.

After that, *only* factual content changes are committed, those that 
change the meaning of the document, and therefore need translating.

Any other changes, spelling corrections and markup fixes, send a patch 
(cvs diff -u)  to kde-doc-english list, and I will collect them all, 
and apply them on the day before tagging (at this point, that would be 
the 7th of March).  By that time, the languages that are to be released 
will already be selected, and this last large set of commits will be 
only those which don't require re-translation.

This should settle the documentation down greatly, I know the fuzzies 
I've been creating must be an enormous task to keep up with, and I know 
most of them are not affecting the actual translation at all.

FYI: Large documentation changes I know are coming include the FAQ (lots 
of small changes) and kdeprint, which is getting another rewrite, but I 
hope to have an initial version for translation by Monday. 

Any objections, or exceptions please speak up now.    If the above is 
acceptable, I'll post it to the -devel lists, so hopefully those 
developers who work on their documentation apart from the docs team 
will take notice.  Note, this doesn't apply to KOffice docs, which are 
on a separate schedule.

Finally, this is similar to what we did for KDE 2.2.2, and it seemed to 
work quite well.  If it works out nicely again this time, I'll try to 
get these dates added to the official release schedule for the next 
time round.

Regards,
-- 
Lauri Watts
KDE Documentation Coordinator