is the translation work useless before the authority announcement of that ubuntu 8.04 begins?

hi, i am a member of the simplified chinese translation team. i
noticed that the launchpad update of Jan. 21 2008 got rid of the
translation that i did two days about ubuntu 8.04 before the update.

this is to confirm if the situation was i mentioned above. if the
answer is true, i believe it is not a proper way to deal with the
translatio team's work. the better way is to notify all the
translators that the work before authority announcement is useless, so
don't translate before the announcement. Otherwise, the technical team
should find a way to integrate the work we contributed before the
update.

please notify me your ideas.

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