Pete,

We followed a similar process at my last company.  We found that freezing anything right before a release was not practical.

We would release the product with included English docs.  Where it differs from your plan is that we did not do a follow up release - unless needed for critical bugs.  The docs team worked off the tagged rev so that they were always translating the same version as the release.  The dev branch was never actually frozen.  When the docs were finished we posted the translated documentation on our website.  In the original release we had links and information discussing the translated docs and where they could be found.

Both approaches have there benefits, but I would suggest we do something like this because I think that it will free more time for other tasks. 

Obviously I could go either way though.

Jay

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 5:39 AM, Pete Muir <pmuir@bleepbleep.org.uk> wrote:
Samson,

You've previously raised the issue of how we allow the JBoss Content
Team to work on translation/documentation and requested that we freeze
the documentation approximately 2 weeks before we release.

Having thought about this some, we don't think that this is really
practical. So here is our alternative proposal:

1) We release Seam X.Y.Z.GA with the English docs as prepared by Seam
committers. This allows users quick access to the code and also to
updated docs

2) We freeze this branch for around 2 - 3 weeks except for any
critical code fixes and documentation/translation work

3) We then release Seam X.Y.Z.SP1 with any critical fixes and translations

Jay,

This obviously increases the QA/release managers load so I propose
that only extremely critical fixes make it into the code, examples or
seam-gen. As the release testing and process is increasingly automated
this should become easier. What do you think?

Pete

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