📅 Original date posted:2014-06-13
📝 Original message:On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 3:24 PM, xor <xor at freenetproject.org> wrote:
> On Friday, June 13, 2014 12:18:37 PM Wladimir wrote:
>> If I do not hear anything, I will do a
>> last-minute language import
>
> High risk projects as Bitcoin should NOT see ANY changes between release
> candidates and releases.
>
> You can cause severe havoc with ANY changes. Humans make mistakes!
> Please do not do such things!
As a general principle, I agree. Other projects have translation
freeze points to address this. Although it is a small holistic risk,
in theory, someone could maliciously change strings at the last minute
in a language maintainers don't know well.
--
Jeff Garzik
Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist
BitPay, Inc. https://bitpay.com/
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