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    Today is "String Freeze" for Notes 8.5.1

    Mary Beth Raven  June 12 2009 02:07:42 PM
    Scattered Schedule-watchers,
    Today is string freeze for Lotus Notes 8.5.1. This means that it's the last day that we are supposed to change any labels that you see in the user interface.
    After today, all the strings (properties files, .rc files etc) will be sent out for translation. So any changes we make to any words after today have to be re-packaged up and re-sent out for translation-- and that costs more. So as of today, only really important/really necessary strings will be changed.

    As you can imagine,  today is a bit hectic. The UI team has been installing builds and verifying that the strings are correct etc. And as usual, today's build is the first build with some of the new strings in them, and we've found a few missing strings (hum, perhaps I should say that we have NOT found a few necessary ones... but you get the idea).

    The next big milestone for the UI team is "pixel freeze", which is when we have to stop re-arranging forms etc. and stop tweaking icons.