Quantal Doumentation Freeze

[Matthew East]

On 21 May 2012 21:15, Kate Stewart <kate.stewart at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings Docs-Team,
>   We have been working through the input from UDS-Q, and feedback from
> translation team, and trying to figure out the best point for the
> DocumentationStringFreeze [1] for the Quantal cycle.
>
>   Based on the input so far,  Sept. 20 looks like the best fit
> for the Documentation String freeze,  this puts it 1 month after
> FeatureFreeze, and will still give the translation team some time to
> get the translations ready by Oct 9th. [2]
>
>   Anyone see any issues with making the DocumentationStringFreeze be
> Sept. 20th?   Other factors that need to be considered?

It's not ideal to have only three weeks after UserInferfaceFreeze
(which is the real date on which documentation writing and checking
can be done reliably) until DocumentationStringFreeze, particularly
since UserInterfaceFreeze is not usually respected 100%. It also seems
a little tight to leave just a week between FeatureFreeze and
UserInterfaceFreeze.

I appreciate the need to allow sufficient time for translating. If
there is anything that can be done to move the FeatureFreeze and
UserInterfaceFreeze earlier in the process, that would be appreciated.

-- 
Matthew East
http://www.mdke.org
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