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[Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Wayne,

Am 31.10.2017 um 13:06 schrieb Wayne Stambaugh:
> We are very close to a feature freeze and creating a 5 stable branch.
> Once that is done, it typically takes a few months to make sure there
> are no critical or major bugs before we can release.  The goal is to
> have it released before FOSDEM 2018 so I have some good news to deliver
> during the KiCad presentation.

I guess we are all happy to see the incredible and amazing evolving of
KiCad within a new version 5. I'm thankful to all people and companies
who have contributed in the past year!

As one of the persons which tries to keep the German translations
up2date I'm a bit concerned if this targeted timeline is possible
especially for KiCad documentation!?
Given that most of all the new features are not made it into kicad-doc
yet and the mess that every change in the master PO files brings for the
updates of the specific languages I think it would be at least a big
issue if with releasing of KiCad5 no actual documentation even in en_US
is available. Missing documentation is one of the major annoying things
for users!

I'm not a native English speaking person so even if I had time (and the
correct knowledge about the new features) I can't help much here. But I
wanted to raise my concerns about this missing thing.

Is here something planned or someone has started to work in this corner
and/or is there a place this is tracked? There are only about three
months left until FOSDEM.

-- 
Regards
Carsten Schoenert