Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 11:51:03 -0400
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
>
> Speaking as a translator, freezing the strings before the release is a
> good practice. It would be nice if GDB followed it.
How much before? 1 week, 1 month, ...
A couple of weeks at least. It depends on the number of messages to
translate, but I expect GDB to have a lot of them.
- branch gdb
- week later, freeze strings
that leaves ~4-6 weeks.
That might not be a good idea, since freezing strings only a week
after the branch is too early; chances are later changes will have to
modify the messages to some extent.
It's better to leave 2 weeks extra between the day you are confident
a release is ready and the actual release. Then just resync with the
Translation Project database before you tar the release.
Ok. Lets try it. For 5.3 (~sep) perhaphs not seriously(1), but for 6.0
(~jan).