[Xfce-i18n] Xfce 4.6.1 released

[Stephan Arts]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Mișu Moldovan <dumol at gnome.ro> wrote:
> Stephan Arts <stephan at xfce.org> a scris:
>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Harald Servat <redcrash at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 2009/4/20 Mișu Moldovan <dumol at gnome.ro>
>> >> Stephan Arts <stephan at xfce.org> a scris:
>> >> > Also, thanks to all the translators, several translations have been
>> >> > improved and completed since the release of 4.6.0.
>> >>
>> >> With my translator hat on, I would like to ask you to please give
>> >> translators an announcement beforehand (on xfce-i18n), something along
>> >> the lines of: "4.6.1 to be released in one week". This works wonders on
>> >> the motivational side.
>> >
>> >   I second that suggestion. Also, I missed something like release schedule
>> > plan. The only news about this I had was from the dev blog [1].
>>
>> Something like this?
>>
>> http://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.6/milestones
>
> >From the point of view of a translator, there is one very important
> thing missing from the release process outlined at the above link: the
> string freeze.
>
> This should be a period of one to two weeks in which no translatable
> strings are changed. My suggestion is to implement string freezes in
> the release process and announce them on the xfce-i18n mailing list.

The stable branch (or trunk, since 4-6 weeks prior to 4.6.0) is
string-frozen. Any string-breakage should be announced on xfce-i18n.
:)

On April 19th, xfce-4.6 has been branched. This means that
string-freeze is still in effect on the 4.6 branch, but has been
lifted from trunk.

I hope this makes it clearer.

Kind regards,
Stephan