Re: Update on the timeline for the release v1.2.

[Julien Lepiller]

Le 19 octobre 2020 15:27:01 GMT-04:00, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" 
<pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> a écrit :
>Thank you zimoun for managing all this!  About the string freeze:
>
>On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 08:26:31PM +0200, Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas
>wrote:
>> zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:
>> > The proposed coming timeline is:
>> >
>> >  - freeze starting the Oct. 26th
>> >  - last round for testing all over the week
>> >  - unfreeze the Oct. 29th and then create the branch
>> >  - minor bug fixes and all the papeword around (NEWS, blog, etc.)
>> >  - release Nov. 6th.
>> >
>> > Does this timeline sound good,
>> >
>> > @Mathieu: to generate the various images?
>> > @Marius: to merge staging?
>> > @Translators: about the string-freeze,  almost 2 weeks?
>> 
>> From my side everything is A-OK, 2 weeks is more than enough to
>> translate the delta with pre1 and to make the final fine-tune; more
>than
>> that shouldn't be expected for the freeze period.  I hope I can do
>some
>> extra work too... :)
>> 
>> Happy hacking!
>> Miguel
>> 
>
>From my side such a long string freeze is not needed, but perhaps a
>long freeze is useful for other languages’ translators.  I don’t know.
>I regularly sync my translation with a POT file from git master:
>
>cd ~/src/guix
>git pull
>make doc-pot-update
>msgmerge --previous --no-wrap --lang=de old-translations.po
>~/src/guix/po/doc/guix-manual.pot > new-translations.po
>
>Regards,
>Florian

There are quite a bit of changes to the manual already. What we can do is 
reduce the string freeze to a few days before the release (say november 1st), 
but provide an intermediate -pre2 version to reduce the workload during the 
string freeze.