Re: gdm2 string freeze breakage

[Ross Golder <ross golder org>]

Sorry all. Came across the gdm2 HACKERS file, which seemed to say
changes were OK. Didn't realise there was a string freeze in operation.
Have since subscribed to appropriate lists and will announce any further
work before committing.

--
Ross

On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 15:50, Christian Rose wrote:
> There has recently been an unannounced string freeze breakage in
> gdm2 HEAD branch:
> 
> This seems to be the commit in gui/gdmlanguages.c that caused the string
> addition:
> 
> ----------------------------
> revision 1.24
> date: 2003/02/13 07:34:47;  author: rossg;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -0
> Added Thai support
> ----------------------------
> 
> Communication with (other) translators regarding string changes at
> supposedly stable times is very important. We're way past doing any
> unannounced changes to messages in 2.2 code, even if it should be about
> adding language support. It's not hard to send a mail to
> gnome-i18n gnome org warning translators about a message addition;
> please spend a few seconds doing so after doing such message additions
> or changes to string-frozen stable code. Thanks.
> 
> 
> Christian
> 
> 
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