Re: Translations gone out for 2.16.

[Carlos O'Donell <carlos_odonell at mentor dot com>]

On 6/26/2012 6:20 AM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> 
>> Community,,
>>
>> I've checked in the libc.pot changes for trunk.
>>
>> I have tagged trunk with tag "glibc-2.16-tps" and uploaded a snapshot
>> of the tag for the translation team.
> 
> You appear to have put the snapshot on ftp.gnu.org.  That's a bad idea; it 
> might confuse people into thinking it's an actual release; there's no 
> glibc-2.16-tps.README explaining that 2.16-tps should not be used for 
> anything other than the translation project, and even if there were, 
> people would ignore it.  Either use the sourceware site, as for previous 
> snapshots, or alpha.gnu.org, as per 
> <http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Test-Releases.html>, but not 
> ftp.gnu.org.  Also follow the instructions there regarding versioning; 
> "tps" is not the right way to identify such versions.  (Make sure the 
> version numbers used are counted as older than the actual release's 
> version by the Translation Project; that may mean something like 
> 2.16-b20120625 if you don't use 2.15.90 version numbers, but check the 
> current TP instructions.)
> 

The following steps have been taken:

(a) glibc*2.16-tps* has been removed from ftp.gnu.org.

(b) glibc*2.16-tps* has been added to alpha.gnu.org.

(c) The translation team has been notified of the file move.

(d) The translation team has been notified that they should send
    all update emails to libc-alpha@sourceware.org.

(e) glibc*2.15.1-tps* tag has been deleted from glibc-ports repo.
    - Users should delete their local tag.

Steps not done:

(f) glibc*2.15.1-tps* cannot be delete from glibc repo.
    - See http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-06/msg00733.html

Cheers,
Carlos.
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