Translations for upcoming 4.11.x and 4.12.x

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Mon Oct 21 16:38:01 UTC 2013


El Dilluns, 21 d'octubre de 2013, a les 15:20:56, Franklin Weng va escriure:
> 2013/10/21 Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>
> 
> > Hello translator and release team friends, as you may know 4.12 is very
> > close
> > to its beta release and that brings us an interesting problem.
> > 
> > This is the problem:
> >  October  31: 4.11.3 tagging
> >  November  6: 4.12 Beta 1 tagging
> >  November 13: 4.12 Beta 2 tagging
> >  November 20: 4.12 Beta 3 tagging
> >  November 27: 4.12 Release Candidate tagging
> >  November 28: 4.11.4 tagging
> >  December 11: 4.12 tagging
> >  January   2: 4.11.5 tagging
> > 
> > As you can see only a week after 4.11.3 we have the tagging of 4.12Beta1
> > and
> > then a lot of beta/RC releases of 4.12 with the final release of 4.12.x in
> > between 4.11.4 and 4.11.5.
> > 
> > That is all fine code wise since we have an infinite number of branches,
> > so we
> > basically have KDE/4.11, KDE/4.12 and master and people just fix stuff in
> > the
> > correct place.
> > 
> > Translation wise it is a different, we only have two branches at a time,
> > stable and trunk, so mapping those three branches is going to mean doing
> > some
> > compromises in what code branch ends up in which translation branch.
> > 
> > This is my suggestion:
> >  * Before KDE SC 4.11.3 all is like now, stable-l10n points to KDE/4.11
> >  and
> > 
> > trunk-l10n points to master
> > 
> >  * After KDE SC 4.11.3 and before 4.12 Beta 1 we make stable-l10n point to
> > 
> > KDE/4.12 and trunk-l10n points to master
> > 
> > This means that for KDE SC 4.11.4 and KDE SC 4.11.5 we will repackage the
> > same
> > translations of 4.11.3 (actually we'll package them from
> > http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/4.11/kde-l10n/ but since that's
> > outside the
> > l10n workflow i don't expect people to touch it much/at all).
> > 
> > Comments?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> >   Albert
> 
> Sorry, I may not be very into position, but I have a question:  Why do
> release team wants to keep releasing 4.11.5 on January 2014 when 4.12 is
> out on, according to release schedule, Dec. 18 2013?

Because we said we would when we drafted the 4.11 schedule and there's no 
reason not to do it.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> 
> 
> Franklin



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