Re: Branching for v1.2?

[Julien Lepiller]

Le 2 novembre 2020 08:20:34 GMT-05:00, "Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas" 
<rosen644835@gmail.com> a écrit :
>Hi simon,
>
>zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 at 23:28, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Having pushed the (guix transformations) patch¹, which also updates
>the
>>> manual and thus requires yet some more translation work, I think I
>don’t
>>> have any serious changes to make and I’d be happy to branch now. 
>WDYT?
>>
>> I think it would be good to branch.
>>
>>
>>> There are a couple of pending issues, notably regarding locales in
>GRUB,
>>> but nothing big hopefully, and nothing that changes the manual and
>>> strings I believe.
>>
>> Does it break the system?
>> Miguel seems to say no.
>
>Only Ludo knows about which exact issues was thinking, I can speak only
>for myself. :-)
>
>Messages displayed by GRUB should be localized as declared on the
>operating-system with current master; menu items aren't translated yet
>because I have to work more on that implementation and I couldn't reach
>this release with something good, sorry. :-(
>
>> Does it downgrade the first impression that the user has?
>
>As far as my testing goes, all the bits that could lead to that are
>already solved on master too.
>
>>> Tuesday 6th is approaching very fast and probably we’re be a bit
>behind
>>> schedule, we’ll see.
>>
>> I think this Fri. Nov. 6th will be hard; but it is still doable if we
>> branch really soon.  Tomorrow?
>
>With my translator hat on: a new tarball for TP has to be generated
>before or after creating the branch (1.2.0-pre3).  If done tomorrow, I
>think the translations could need a bit later than Friday to catch up;
>Florian and Julien, what do you think?

I think I can manage the deadline on the 6th if there aren't too many changes, 
and we generate the tarball today or tomorrow. If we generate it later, we'll 
need to postpone the deadline to after the weekend I think.

>
>Happy hacking!
>Miguel