Re: [dconf-editor] string freeze break (or opinions) request



2018-03-05 9:42 GMT+01:00 Arnaud Bonatti <arnaud bonatti gmail com>:
Hello everybody! Reviewing translations of the “dconf-editor” module I
maintain, I’ve discovered that I had a string generation problem: in
the gschema file, four strings contains line breaks, but these line
breaks doesn’t finish in the po files, and so the translations made by
translators do not finish in the application. So sad. :·( That has
been reported in the Bugzilla instance by Piotr Drąg[1] against GLib
using another module as example.

So. I’m not sure if I’m in a “string freeze break request” case or not
(I don’t find my exact case in the Wiki[2]), but I have two
proposition for fixing these bug-ly untranslated strings:

I’d say this is covered by “Marking a message for translation that was
previously not marked for translation by accident.” Even though the
string was technically translatable, the translation couldn’t be used.

 – Proposition 1: fix the string generation using “&#xA;&#xA;” in the
gschema file, and let translators redo the translations;
 – Proposition 2: replace the two line breaks by one space, so that
all translations already done work, but without any line break (and
I’d change the strings next cycle for what is wanted).

In a perfect world, we would fix bug #793931 properly. As we live in
this world, I think proposition 2 is the best solution for 3.28, and
we can deal with the bigger problem in 3.30. The decision is yours,
though.

I had also planned a 1bis proposition, where I fix the gschema file
and all the translations in one patch, avoiding work from translators,
but following previous discussion, that’s probably not a path I can
follow. ;)


The difference is that this would be a change (presumably) consulted
with and approved by the translation teams, which makes it OK. :P

Anyway, should I do something, or not, and if yes what? That’s not an
important change, but for now translators are working on strings that
doesn’t appear, and that lost time makes me sad. :·(


I would like to say that I really appreciate your concern!

Best regards,

-- 
Piotr Drąg
https://piotrdrag.fedorapeople.org


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