Re: Do we participate in the schedule?

[Ankitkumar Rameshchandra Patel <ankit redhat com>]

Dimitris Glezos wrote:

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Ankitkumar Rameshchandra Patel
<ankit redhat com> wrote:
  

Dimitris Glezos wrote:

To answer the Q, we don't actively participate, but we could
participate. The best ways to do so would be by opening a ticket on
their trac intstance, getting a discussion going on the next releng
meeting about what we need from them, and participating in the
on-topic discussion when prompted for:

  https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/105


I found http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-10/f-10-all-tasks.html
which gives two dates for "PO Files due from Translation", one is 21st
October, 2008 (Testing phase - Beta release) and another is 6th November,
2008 (Lauch phase - Release Candidate). However,
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Schedule gives only one date, that is 21st
October for "Translation Freeze".

So, can we find some clarity on the schedule?
    

I think the latter refers to the website and release notes. Just
before the release we need to freeze the website content, translate
it, and have it ready for the announcement.

  

Oh I see... Thanks!

Should I put the same query on the above ticket? OR Any of the FLSCo members
can find it out?
    

Opening a ticket to releng for clarification might help. In general,
releng asks *us* to let them know of which dates we want to have, so
next release, let's make sure we let them know in advance of what we
suggest.

  

Yeah, that's right!

Our need is to know the due date to submit our translations. The reason,
date looks important to me (and I think for all localizers) is because,
strings keep on changing even if there is a "String Freeze" date given to
the developers. Which basically increase our efforts most of the times to
complete the translations. So, if we know the last date to submit the
translations then we all can estimate our workload and schedule the
translations accordingly.
    

Right -- it'd be a good idea to communicate the above with releng and
put them up somewhere for future reference, for example on the Freezes
page [1] and on our FAQ.

  [1]: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Freezes

  

This page is very much clear I think.

Thanks Dimitris for your help!

-d

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