Doc plans for the near future

[Jim Campbell]

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On 23 April 2011 17:29, Jim Campbell <jwcampbell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Any thoughts as to when we would put a freeze on the 11.04 docs?
>
> I think we should get to the stage as soon as possible where we can
> tell the translators to start working on the material we have without
> having to change major numbers of existing strings which would result
> in their work being wasted.
>
> That doesn't have to be a hard freeze, we can still add material where
> we have gaps, but we should be in a place where they can start working
> as soon as possible. Once that is done, we can then use some further
> time to fill in gaps and then allow the translators time to
>
> In terms of time periods, I think that we should aim to start
> translation work around the time of the release, and then aim for a
> final string freeze two weeks after, and then a final release with
> translations four weeks after that.
>

The initial time frame to start translations sounds ok to me. We can get
David's input on it, too, of course. I will mark it on my calendar for now
and set a reminder to send out an email about it.

I will also get going on a list of TODOs for the docs - areas that still
need to get cleaned up, prioritizing the most important tasks.  This will
help distribute the work and prevent collisions.  I'll have that available
on the wiki later today.


>
> However this is all subject to whether those time frames are
> realistic. If we think more time is needed for documentation or for
> translating, we can take it.
>

Ok


>
> I'm comfortable with doing several updates so we could aim for a
> non-translation upload at the time of our final string freeze, then
> another upload one a month after the release with translations, and
> another with more updated translations two months after the release.
>
>
This sounds good, as well. I just wanted for us to have a time-frame in mind
so that we weren't committing changes to files that translators were working
on.

Jim
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