Lucid Release Schedule

[Braiam Peguero]

Hi,

Perhaps, and this is an idea I have for some time, certain packages with no 
updates & upgrades (eg new features, bug fixes, etc..) are marked as 
complete, or a least only for revision, as are translations, which would 
allow some time savings to comply the deadline.

Braiam Peguero

Translated with google.

>
> Hi,
>
> The schedule for Lucid Lynx appears to have changed radically in
> comparison to the previous few releases. I haven't seen any discussion
> of this on this list, did I miss it somewhere else? There isn't a
> reservation on the page about whether it has been finally decided on
> or not, but I'm hoping that some discussion is going to be possible
> because the revised schedule is unworkable for the documentation team,
> and probably for translators too, as far as I can see
>
> I'm setting out what I see as the problems here.
>
> In the last three releases (Hardy, Jaunty, Karmic), we have had two
> weeks between FeatureFreeze (FF) and UserInterfaceFreeze (UIF), and
> three weeks between UIF and DocumentationStringFreeze (DSF). In Lucid
> however we have FF and UIF on the same day, and DSF one week later.
>
> The main problem for the documentation team is that a five week period
> between FF and DSF is now squeezed into one week. The upshot is that
> the documentation team has potentially one week to document new
> features or string changes in Lucid.
>
>>From the documentation team's point of view, we need a decent period
> (2-3 weeks) between FF and UIF so that we can give ourselves a target
> of getting major new documentation of new features ready by UIF. We
> then need a further decent period between UIF and DSF (2-3 weeks) so
> that we can focus on ensuring that all the strings referred to in the
> documentation match those used in the software.
>
> Translators of documentation also get a pretty raw deal. The
> NonLanguagePackTranslationDeadline was two weeks after DSF. Now it's
> just one week after. So translators then have one week to translate
> any new documentation, which could include major documentation of new
> features. Again, I'd like to be in a position to assure translators
> that major new documentation is in place by UIF, so they can start
> work from then, and then assure them of a hard freeze at DSF, where
> they can focus on completing any last strings. At the moment, that
> simply isn't possible.
>
> I also see, although this doesn't directly affect the documentation
> team, that the LanguagePackTranslationDeadline is in week 20, instead
> of week 26 (Karmic), week 24 (Jaunty) or week 25 (Hardy) which gives
> them between 4 and 6 fewer weeks to translate software.
>
> I'd really like to see the timetable used in previous releases
> restored. Looking forward to hearing your views.
>
> -- 
> Matthew East
> http://www.mdke.org
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