Release Notes for F8 - first POT drop

[Noriko Mizumoto]

Hi Paul

Paul W. Frields wrote:
> Greetings L10N folk!
> 
> Due to scarce personnel resources we are running a couple of days behind
> our schedule[1] for the Docs Project.  However, I am getting the Release
> Notes ready for a POT drop today.  Although the schedule currently has a
> "deadline" of 23 September, we will be extending this until about 26
> September (2007-09-26).
> 
> However, please keep in mind that your team does *NOT* need to complete
> ALL work by that date.  Due to last-minute bug fixes and other errata,
> you can expect a few string changes over the next few weeks, although we
> will strive to keep them to an absolute minimum.  You will need to
> complete all work by the listed date of 21 October (2007-10-21), subject
> to change if there are slips affecting the overall release schedule[2].
> 
> In the past we have included only finished release notes in the test3
> release of Fedora, but that will NOT be the case for F8 test3.  Any team
> that works on their release notes translation will have their work
> included in F8 test3.  We would still like to include only finished
> translations in the final version to emphasize the professional polish
> of the distribution, but since I now have greater access to the
> fedora-release-notes package in the distribution, we will be more able
> to bring an update package into Fedora 8 during its cycle if additional
> languages are finished by some deadline date on which we can jointly
> agree.
> 
> Reminder: the full fedora-release-notes package includes material from
> the following modules:
> 
Thank you so much giving us clear picture!
Now I have a couple of questions, can I?

* Should we need to update pot/po files for those manually?
* I've edited some LINGUS to include ja, then found that 'readme/' and
'readme-burning-isos/' have no LINGUS under po/. What to do?

>   * release-notes
>   * homepage
>   * about-fedora         <-- (Almost no changes since F7)
>   * readme
>   * readme-live-image
>   * readme-burning-isos  <-- (Almost no changes since F7)

Many thanks
noriko

> 
> For the best locale representation, make sure you visit each of these
> modules for updates.  Also, please remember to check that the po/LINGUAS
> file in each module is updated to include your locale, so it will be
> built by our tools!  Thanks to everyone for your great work, it's a
> pleasure to work with you.  If you have any problems, please contact us
> at fedora-docs-list.
> 
> = = =
> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Schedule 
> [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Schedule 
> 
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