Re: ChangeLog and LINGUAS consistency

["Leonardo F. Fontenelle" <leonardof gnome org>]

Em Ter, 2008-12-09 às 17:15 +0100, Kenneth Nielsen escreveu:
> 2008/12/9 Djihed Afifi <djihedlists googlemail com>:
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > 1) Currently, some modules in GNOME use a custom ChangeLog for the po
> > directories. Some don't and ask NOT to introduce a Changelog entry.
> > Some removed the ChangeLog file all together.
> >
> > I don't mind either way, but it would be nice if we had some
> > consistency and enforced one way or another for all modules, as was
> > done with LINGUAS.
> >
> > 2) A while back there was the wonderful effort to enforce LINGUAS files:
> >
> > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/PoLinguas
> >
> > I think it is time a similar file is introduced for help files - for
> > the same reasons. Any comments?
> >
> >
> > Djihed
> 
> I second that. I would be great to have a consistent way of doing
> that. Personally, as a translator/commiter, I prefer the separate
> Changelog approach which, I believe, is the one most commonly used.
> 

If there's a ChangeLog file, it must be inside the po/ or help/ or
equivalent directory. I can check out automatically all the needed po/
and help/ and equivalent directories, but then having to check out the
base module dir just for a Makefile.am or a ChangeLog is ridiculous.

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Leonardo Fontenelle
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