Release Notes Schedule

[Noriko Mizumoto]

John Poelstra さんは書きました:
> John J. McDonough said the following on 07/28/2009 04:37 AM Pacific Time:
>> Noriko
>>
>> Thank you so much for your careful review
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Noriko Mizumoto" <noriko at redhat.com>
>> To: "Fedora Translation Project List" <fedora-trans-list at redhat.com>
>> Cc: <fedora-docs-list at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 12:31 AM
>> Subject: Re: Release Notes Schedule
>>
>>> * 4.7 Translate f-r-n for beta Sep 6 to Sep 26 21d
>>> This seems not consistent with f-12-trans-tasks, which says Sep 9 to 
>>> Sep 18.
>>
>> While I stuck with John's dates for the releases, I tried to maximize 
>> the time L10N had available. I wonder whether 9 days is sufficient. I 
>> would expect this cycle that the beta would be the bulk of the 
>> release notes (although I suppose that remains to be seen).
>>
>>> * 4.8 Build f-r-n.rpm for beta Sep 29
>>> A question, there is 2 days blank between 4.7 and 4.8. What is this 
>>> for?
>>
>> No good reason
>>
>>> * 6.7 Translate f-r-n for GA Oct 20 to Oct 26 7d
>>> This seems not consistent with f-12-trans-tasks, which says Oct 9 to 
>>> Oct 16.
>>
>> The later we can do this the better. Release notes seem to be the 
>> last thing on people's radar, and we tend to discover important 
>> changes late, so the later we can make the POTs the better. Also, the 
>> original schedule had some Docs tasks out of order.
>>
>>> * Review translation not scheduled
>>> Please set up 'Review translation'. Since we translate PO file, so 
>>> it is extremely helpful if docs team can build html for review 
>>> before the deadline.
>>
>> That is a really excellent catch. I think we need to work on the 
>> mechanics of this, but it could have a number of advantages.
>>
>>> * 7.4 Translate 0-day
>>> I understand that docs team has little window for Zero Day Update. 
>>> But let me become devil this time as experiment. Is any chance that 
>>> rel-note team can place this entry before GA Public Availability 
>>> 3-Nov for inclusion? Just tiny window is fine. I can not guarantee 
>>> at all how many translators can respond.
>>
>> My expectation was that on release day the 0-day changes would be 
>> available in English only, with an update rpm to follow the release. 
>> However, we are still discussing whether it makes sense to have a 
>> single rpm with six documents in 41 languages, so that may change. It 
>> might make more sense to delay the availability of the update rpm 
>> rather than try to push the POT creation earlier, thus missing late 
>> breaking changes. On the other end, we are going to try to be more 
>> proactive in hounding the developers for release notes input, so 
>> maybe we can reduce the number of those late changes.
>>
>> --McD
>>
>
> This is a great discussion and it is really exciting to see different 
> people asking the hard questions and looking for the holes that I used 
> to try and do all on my own :)
>
> Unfortunately I've found that it is extremely hard (as you may be 
> seeing already) to create a really solid schedule over email, 
> particularly when more than one team is involved and questions have 
> been raised in response to tasks or dates someone has previously 
> suggested.
>
> I would like to propose that we meet on Gobby & FedoraTalk next. So 
> far I have met with: Design, Release Engineering, Quality, and 
> Marketing to go over the Fedora 12 schedule this way. I think everyone 
> who attended those meetings would say they were tremendously efficient 
> and helpful :-)
I am not good at those at all, but will try. Btw, irc is better option 
for me ;p
noriko
>
> Could someone set up a meeting time and date using www.whenisgood.net? 
> I promise to add my availability and create a text version of the 
> existing schedule that we can then hack through and update together on 
> Gobby. It helps if I am there so I can capture the dependencies 
> between the tasks and embed them in the TaskJuggler source file.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>