Konstantin Käfer wrote:
Hi,
during the 4.7 release cycle, I have been very active translation Drupal into my language (German). I thought that I'll share my experiences with it.
If I recall it correctly, there has been a "string freeze", meaning that strings will not change anymore from a certain date on.
You don't recall correctly, there never was an official string freeze. We tried to avoid string freezes, though.
I suggest that we'll do a string freeze for the HEAD version one month after the code freeze. That would be October 1st. I think that this would give documentation patches enough time to get in after the code "freeze" (which is actually not a freeze as patches still go in, it's more of a "feature freeze") while giving translators enough time to update their translations for HEAD before it is released to the public. I urge all developers to respect that "string freeze" and only break it if absolutely necessary. That means, that all major documentation patches should get in before October 1st.
I think this is a good idea. Other projects do that as well.
Cheers, Gerhard