Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Tux Paint 0.9.18rc1 available

[Karl O. H. <ka...@hu...>]

Sundag 28 oktober 2007 skreiv Bill Kendrick:
>On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 07:35:42PM +0100, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
>> M=E5ndag 22 oktober 2007 skreiv Bill Kendrick:
>> >I've rolled a tarball of Tux Paint in CVS, calling it 0.9.18rc1
>> >(release candidate #1 of the next version: 0.9.18).
>>
>> Why did you create a release candidate without requesting
>> updates from the translators first?
>
>It's a chicken-and-egg thing.  If translators can more easily get to the
>PO files, see them in action, etc., they seem more likely to translate. ;)
>
>I haven't really feature-froze, yet... I did want to get a slightly wider
>audience to try out some of the new features, since I hadn't been touching
>the code for a while.

Then don't call it a release candidate; call it a beta! A 'release candidat=
e'=20
should be a real candidate for release, with all translations completed and=
=20
with no known critical bugs. If no such bugs are found, the release will be=
=20
identical to the release candiate.

=2D-=20
Karl Ove Hufthammer