[Lazarus] Release model for Lazarus

[Maxim Ganetsky]

11.07.2015 22:24, Mattias Gaertner пишет:
> On Sat, 11 Jul 2015 20:05:36 +0200
> Péter Gábor <ptrg at freemail.hu> wrote:
>
>> 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).
>
> Yes, 1.4.2. It is a bug fix release. No new features.
>
>
>> [...]
>> 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.
>
> The 'fixes' branch only contains bug fixes. So almost all
> changes to resourcestrings are either fixing typos of the English
> version or add new error messages.

Yes, most of translations changes are string additions, i.e. some string 
in interface was untranslatable before and then resource string got 
added for it. This doesn't cause translation regressions.

Sometimes some strings get changed though, but such changes are quite rare.

> Waiting a week means translators and maintainers must work with an
> additional branch.
> I'm not sure if it is worth the hassle. Maybe Maxim who applies the
> biggest part of the translations can tell.

I agree here, there is not so much translations changes in fixes branch 
anyway.

BTW, in case of 1.4.2 release the LAST merge affecting resource strings 
was done a MONTH AGO, on June 11.

I would recommend translators to send translation updates for FIXES 
branch as soon as they have them at hand. For trunk it is enough to send 
them once a week.

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  Maxim Ganetsky                  mailto:ganmax at narod.ru