[Xfce-i18n] Translations polishing / 4.14 Release Schedule

[Emanuele Petriglia]

Hi Vinzenz,

This news is very exciting! I have some question about the translations,
this is the first time I take part a release as a translator.

1. What does it mean "soft string freeze" and "string + code Freeze"?
Are that strings related only for source strings or also for translated
strings?
2. What is the last day on we can contribute to localization, before the
packages will be frozen?
3. I usually localize strings on the master branch, after there will be
new branches (pre1, pre2, ettc.) do we should translate only on these?

There is also an additional question: how can we manage credits for
translators? The list on the website is really old, we should take the
informations from Transifex (maybe with a script) for all translators.

> Looking at the lower end of [2] there's a thing I'd to be discussed: do
we include all languages right away? Or are there some to be left out
due to lack of completeness?
And if so: where to draw the line?

What I think: how many string overall there are in Xfce? How many of
there are localized? We should take a percent value of translated
strings, for example X=50% or 60%, and if there is a language with less
than X% localized strings, then it won't be included in the release.

--
Emanuele Petriglia (ema-pe)

On 4/30/19 12:17 PM, Vinzenz Vietzke wrote:
> Hi translators,
> 
> as not everyone might be subscribed to the other mailing lists I'm
> forwarding this announcement here as well [1].
> 
> 
> === Deadlines ===
> 
> One thing I'd like to pick out is these dates:
> 
> 2019-05-19 	Xfce 4.14pre1 (Soft String Freeze)
> 2019-06-30 	Xfce 4.14pre2 (String + Code Freeze)
> 2019-07-28 	Xfce 4.14pre3 (Final Freeze) 
> 
> Until then translations should be done as completely as possible. So
> after all the years of slow but steady translations it's about time to
> get stuff polished and finalized. I propose to target 2019-06-30 to get
> most of the work done as afterwards ideally nothing or at least not too
> many strings will change.
> 
> 
> === Current State ===
> 
> I pulled out the current tranlsations state from Transifex and dumped it
> to the wiki [2].
> 
> As you can see there's quite a lot already done, yet some
> widely used languages could need some help. So you (or someone you
> know) would like to jump in - here's the chance!
> 
> 
> === i18n QA ===
> 
> Looking at the lower end of [2] there's a thing I'd to be discussed: do
> we include all languages right away? Or are there some to be left out
> due to lack of completeness?
> And if so: where to draw the line?
> 
> Thanks for your time!
> 
> Regards,
> vinz.
> 
> [1] https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce/2019-April/036389.html
> [2] https://wiki.xfce.org/translations/planning_4.14
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