Audacity

Op za 21-09-2002, om 19:20 schreef Dominic Mazzoni:
> Translators:
> 
> We're planning to release a new version of Audacity 1.1 pretty
> soon.  I'm hoping that this will be the first release to get
> internationalization correct: when you launch the program, it
> now opens a box asking you to pick your language, and the bug
> where it couldn't find the language files has been fixed.
Great!
I'm looking forward to all the new features that have been added.
Indeed reading the devel-list, I can see an enormous amount of work has
been done and Audacity has progressed significantly, and I hope the
audacity developers will be able to make a good 1.1 release.

Do I understand correctly that from now on till the 1.1 release, there
will be (sort of) a string freeze?

Tino

On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 10:20:19 -0700
Dominic Mazzoni <dominic@...> wrote:

> It appears that French and Russian are the most out-of-date.
> Probably because they were two of the first, and the program
> has changed the most since then.  But all of the languages
> need updating.

I see :-)

> I put a new Audacity.pot file on the Translation page.  Send
> the new .po files to me or to Matt.

Thank you! Within a week I will find time to update the translation.

Alexandre

Tino Meinen wrote:
> Do I understand correctly that from now on till the 1.1 release, there
> will be (sort of) a string freeze?

Keep in mind that we're using Linux kernel-style version numbers.
So versions 1.1.0, 1.1.1, etc. are all development (beta), while
version 1.2 will be another stable release.

The official string freeze will happen when we branch for 1.2.

Currently we're preparing for 1.1.1, and I'm guessing that there
will be at least 1 more 1.1 release before 1.2.  So no, the
translator's job is not entirely finished.

However, we made lots and lots of changes since 1.1.0, which
affected many of the strings.  After all, it's been 6 months
since the first translations were started.  I don't think
that we're going to make nearly as many changes now, so the
next updates should be even less work.

Unfortunately translating is a moving target.

One of the main reasons why I'd like updated translations
for 1.1.1 is that this will be the first version that will
be very easy to translate on Windows and Mac OS.  Version
1.1.0 had many bugs, and I think we scared away a lot of
people who never figured out how to use it in their language.
Version 1.1.1 will make it easy, so it's important that
the strings are correct!

- Dominic