[diagnostics-branch] creating new branch

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Aldy Hernandez wrote:

> Hi folks.
> 
> Though I would have preferred to work in mainline with the appropriate
> maintainers (Joseph, et al) approving my patches, there seems to be no
> way I can limit the invasiveness of my diagnostics work... even though
> it's technically a regression and/or bug fix.  It can't make it to 4.4,
> without someone getting incredibly pissed off.

In addition, we need to consider the interests of translators, who need 
some time before a release to translate new and changed messages without 
bulk changes (e.g. removing %H from messages as part of changing to use 
functions with explicit location parameters) invalidating the 
translations.  I plan to regenerate the .pot files and submit the next 
trunk snapshot to the TP; after that, we should avoid bulk changes to 
translated strings until after 4.4 branches.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com