Recent changes to Ubuntu

[Mary Gardiner]

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> Sean Wheller wrote:
> > In general, devel should just be sensitive to the fact that we also
> > have i18n stuff in our build system. So a single menu change could
> > result in many smaller updates trickling through the ecosystem. On
> > the side of caution, it is best to give early warning especially
> > near preview and final releases.
> >
> On this front we've been pretty good. Even the spatial browsing
> behaviour change does not affect UI or translations, though a comment
> in docs would have been a good idea that I missed.

I'm not sure from this comment whether you've considered the other angle
of translation: not just that the doc team needs screenshots of the UI
to 'freeze' early if they're to appear, but that the documents
themselves also need translation, and thus the English versions of the
documentation freeze fairly early. Late changes simply can't be easily
documented, even if someone thinks to do so. (As someone who doesn't use
Nautilus, I can't comment easily on whether the change to spatial
behaviour merits a mention in our guides, the person who started this
thread seemed to think it did though.)

-Mary