[kde-doc-english] new guy

tic tic at tictric.net
Fri Nov 28 10:04:21 CET 2008


> Hello Manfred, I'm glad to read your mail.
> This list was really low traffic the last months.

I'm not really sure if I'll be able to substantially change this :-)

>
> Please send it to this list for several reasons:
> - it's our job to manage the documentation
> - we are in documentation freeze since a few days, see
> https://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.2_Release_Schedule#November_25th.
>2C_2008:_Documentation.2FHandbook_Freeze so it is not possible to commit
> your work to trunk at the moment. But if your changes are in the list
> archive, someone can pick it up and commit it when it is possible.
> - the general rule is no docbook updates for minor releases (x.y.z) without
> permission from the translators (kde-i18n-doc at kde.org).
> Reason for that is that a change of one char in a docbook makes it
> impossible for many teams to generate their translated language docbooks.
> But don't worry, I am confident to get your updates into 4.2.2, maybe even
> into the 4.2.1 release.

Ah, I am not the rushing type of guy anymore. And I don't really feel like I 
want to trade solidity for speed :-)
Especially now that this particular doc needs 'a lot'(TM) of polishing.

best
Manfred





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