Freezes

[Corey Burger]

I was looking at the UDU wiki and I came across this page:

http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseCycle

Which says the following things:
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Institute string freezes

After consultation with some Ubuntu translators, we will institute a
string freeze, to coincide with preview freeze (T-5 weeks). At this
point, no translatable strings outside documentation may change
without prior confirmation, and any exceptions must be communicated to
translators. This should allow translators time to finish their work
before the final release.

Since documentation needs to be updated to cope with code changes, we
need to allow it a little more time to come up to date, but it
nevertheless needs to be translated. We will institute a documentation
string freeze, to coincide with the preview release (T-4 weeks). At
this point, no translatable strings in the documentation may change
without prior confirmation, and any exceptions must be communicated to
translators.

Translations for the installer and other packages not covered by
language packs (e.g. openoffice.org) must be complete by T-2 weeks.
Translations for packages covered by language packs must be complete
by T-1 week if they are to be included in the final release; failing
that, they will be included in post-release updates.
#

Institute UI freeze

Documenters need to have a stable user interface against which to
write end-user documentation. To allow for this, we will institute a
user interface freeze, one week before preview freeze (T-6 weeks),
which by the GNOME 2.10 schedule would have been one week after the
GNOME UI freeze. At this point, changes affecting the system's user
interface require prior confirmation, and any exceptions must be
communicated to translators. Assuming that documentation has been kept
reasonably up to date with major changes throughout the cycle, this
allows two weeks for further updates before the documentation string
freeze.

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Corey