Hi, continuing from todays meeting as I got caught up in work stuff (sorry Julie) So the idea was that changes on stable/* and milestone/proposed would run an additional gate job which would check for changes in strings and if they detect one would add a -1 review on the patchset in gerrit a new category. An i18n team member could accept the freeze exception by adding a +1 and only changes with 0 in that gerrit review category would pass or maybe a +1 if we settle on two members. This is modelled loosely on the rules used by the GNOME project (which I'm accustomed to, so forgive me the bias) described here: https://wiki.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/Freezes https://wiki.gnome.org/TranslationProject/HandlingStringFreezes It just a thought of course, but seeing that the OpenStack project community is more diverse adding gerrit/jenkins checks would be a nice idea as enforcing an "send email" policy could be a lot harder. Best regards, -- Łukasz [DeeJay1] Jernaś