[kde-doc-english] Re: why is kmplot_menus.pot in both HEAD and BRANCH older then the actual documentation in kde 3.2.1?

[Bernd Pol]

Hi all,

just to let everybody know who is involved: Backporting of KDevelop docs 
has been stopped. Sorry for any inconveniences.

Bernd

Am Mittwoch, 17. März 2004 13:18 (UCT) schrieb Lauri Watts:
> On Wednesday 17 March 2004 13.27, Erik K. Pedersen wrote:
> > Onsdag 17 marts 2004 04:33 skrev Malcolm Hunter:
> > > It looks like they are to me:
> >
> > Well I think it is more to the point that when the documentation
> > writers backport something tothe branch, they should tell us. The
> > system of translating docbook files as po-files works wonderfully,
> > but it would be after releases I occasionally backport the docbooks
> > to the branch, not the po-files. In this case translating in HEAD
> > and backporting the docbooks is probably the best solution.
>
> The kmplot manual in HEAD and in BRANCH is the same revision, I
> wonder if Rinse doesn't have a sticky tag set or something.
>
> I'm aware a couple of developers have backported docs (KDevelop
> specifically) but since they do not coordinate with the docs team any
> more than they do with i18n, there's not a whole lot I can do about
> that.  When I did find out, I asked them not to do that in future,
> without at least asking first.
>
> If you are seeing backports in docs in the BRANCH, please tell me, so
> I can do something about it. BRANCH is completely string frozen, and
> docs, in the end, are nothing but a big bunch of strings.
>
> I know some of you translating, like Erik, backport your own
> translations of docs, that is great.  Nobody at all should be
> backporting *English* docs at this point, without it having come
> across this list (kde-i18n) for approval, and frankly, it's a bit
> late in the cycle for approval to be given lightly.
>
> (CC'ed to kde-doc-english just to make the frozenness of the branch
> clear all over.)
>
> Regards,