[Lazarus] Release model for Lazarus

[Péter Gábor]

Today I noticed that a new release of Lazarus is prepared (time of last
update on sf.net 'Files' page is newer than the release time of listed
files).

I am updating the translations each time the source po files are
changing. But it's not a good idea to release them on the bug-tracker
every time when a single sentence or just a word was changed. So I am
asking you (the release manager) to send out a notification (on the
mailing list of course) when you know that no more source strings will
be changed before publishing the new version...
This way the translators and the manager of translations will have time
to upload their work.

Mantis' RoadMap is not (and never was) up to date. Today it shows the
followings
"Lazarus - 1.4.2 (Scheduled For Release 2015-06-20"
and
"0028167: [LCL] MaskUtils.FormatMaskText not implemented (Bart Broersma)
- assigned."

So where can we know that we can upload the translations without missing
future changes?

A true release model with strict phases (including "frozen source
strings" at last, maybe two weeks) would be very useful.

For example see: http://www.xfce.org/about/releasemodel

-- 
Péter Gábor
ptrg at freemail.hu