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<p><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Hello, all</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Our translators start translation and I18n compliance test since string frozen date.</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">During the translation and test, we may report bugs. </font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Some bugs are incorrect and incomprehensible messages. </font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Some bugs are user facing messages but not marked with _().</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">All of these bugs might introduce string changes and add new strings to be translated.</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">I noticed some patches to fix these bugs got -1 because of "string freeze".</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">For example, <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/79679/">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/79679/</a></font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">and <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/79948/">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/79948/</a></font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">StringFreeze -> Start translation & test -> Report bugs which may cause string changes -> Cannot fix these bugs because of StringFreeze.</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">So I'd like to bring this question to dev: when shall we fix these errors then?</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">From my point of view, FeatureFreeze means "not accept new features", and doesn't mean "cannot fix bugs in features".</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">StringFreeze should mean "not to add new strings". But we could be able to improve strings and fix bugs.</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">I think shipping with incorrect messages is worse than strict string freeze.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">From my experiences in Havana release, since StringFreeze, there are volunteers from Horizon team who would </font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">keep an eye on strings changes. If string changes happen, they would send email</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">to I18n ML to inform these changes. Many thanks to their work.</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">In Havana release, we kept on those kind of bug reporting and fixing till RC2. </font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Most of them are happened before RC1.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Now I hope to hear your input to this situation: when and how should we fix these kind of bugs in Icehouse?</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Best regards<br>
Ying Chun Guo (Daisy)<br>
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