As you may know, I discussed the deadline of translation import for stable release update with stable-maint team and we have a good consensus on it. It applies to future stable maintenance updates too. For the stable maintenance updates, the deadline of translation updates from I18N team is freeze+3 days. It is worth documented in StableBranch wiki page. Although it sometimes be short when considering holidays/vacations or other reasons, IMO 3 days is a enough period to catch up our translations because stable updates would not have many string updates. As a next step we should have a similar consensus for normal release. The situation for normal release is different from stable updates, but it is important to make translation updates (I18N team work) a part of the release process. I believe Daisy will coordinate the discussion. Thanks, Akihiro