Quoting Otavio Salvador (otavio@debian.org): > I believe it is a good time for that. Martin will propose his patch > but except from that I think we don't have any other change that > requires string changes planned for lenny. So, I'm now waiting for Martin to commit his patch to officially declare the opening of the string freeze. From the overview I'm conducting for a few months now, about 20 languages will be updated in about one week (the last "breakage" of strings happened last week-end and, one week later, we reached 20 complete languages). Probably another 10 will just need a small ping to translators after that week. The problem are the remaining ones ! I think I need about *two weeks* of hard mail sending (close to spamming, indeed) to various people and lists before we can reach 40 complete languages. I think we will not make more than this number. The ramining ones (about 20) will probably be "nearly" complete. I propose we keep those that are 100% for sublevels 1 and 2. Then examine the situation one by one for those that remain. As you see, it means that I'm requesting for about FOUR weeks of string freeze. The hard point is not the time needed for translators to update their files, but more the time *I* need to complete the best effort to get as many files completed as possible. I think that after *three* weeks of string freeze, we will be able to decide upon what languages we keep or consider disabling, which will allow me to send "last chance" notices out in the wild. Such schedule would probably start next Monday (unless Martin commits his tempaltes changes before the week-end...which would help me as I'll be unavailable all week-end and I'll probably have hard time catching up with mail on Monday)....which gives Sept. 29th as end of string freeze. (yeah, I know, very far away....but that string freeze should have started earlier if we wanted to release earlier)
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