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Excerpts from Akihiro Motoki's message of 2016-03-24 02:06:50 +0900:
> 2016-03-22 20:08 GMT+09:00 Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com>:
> >
> >> On Mar 22, 2016, at 6:18 AM, Akihiro Motoki <amotoki at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi release management team,
> >>
> >> Can we have a new release of django-openstack-auth from stable/mitaka
> >> branch for translations?
> >>
> >> What is happening?
> >> django-openstack-auth is a library project consumed by Horizon.
> >> The (soft) string freeze happens when the milestone-3 is cut.
> >> The milestone-3 is also the dependency freeze.
> >> This is a dilemma between dependency freeze and translation start,
> >> and there is no chance to import translations of django-openstack-auth
> >> for Mitaka.
> >> There are several updates of translations after 2.2.0 (mitaka) release [1].
> >> As the i18n team, we would like to have a released version of
> >> django-openstack-auth
> >> with up-to-date translations.
> >>
> >> Which version?
> >> The current version of django-openstack-auth for Mitaka is 2.2.0.
> >> What version number is recommended, 2.2.1 or 2.3.0?
> >
> > Stable branches for libraries should only ever increment the patch level, so 2.2.1.
> >
> >>
> >> When?
> >> Hopefully a new version is released soon around Mitaka is shipped.
> >> The current translation deadline is set to Mar 28 (the beginning of
> >> the release week).
> >> In my understanding we avoid releasing a new version of library before
> >> the Mitaka release.
> >> Distributors can choose which version is included in their distribution.
> >
> > Even if we don't do the release before the end of this cycle, we can release it as a stable update. Either way, when you are ready for a new release submit the patch to openstack/releases and include in the commit message the note that the update includes translations.
> 
> Thanks Doug,
> I am relieved to hear that we can update translations of
> django-openstack-auth for Mitaka.
> 
> > Do you think it would be possible for Newton to start translations for libraries sooner, before their freeze date?
> 
> I think we can. I will coordinate the string freeze will happen a bit earlier.
> The amount of strings are relatively small and there is no problem
> from translation side.
> 
> Akihiro

Good, thank you!

Doug