Re: gedit string freeze breakage

[Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas online no>]

ons, 2002-08-14 kl. 18:02 skrev Tino Meinen:
> On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 17:05, Luis Villa wrote:
> 
> > so I think it should stay in. But it is up to the translators, really-
> > whatever they say goes.
> That's a nice but rather void gesture. Translators do not really have a
> voice. We're not organised in this sense. Suppose I would be against a
> change. Would that be enough for the patch to be withdrawn? Or would it

It would require discussion and agreement on this list. And I think - in
the case we don't come to an agreement - the better? judgement of the
release team and the i18n representative there.
 
> require a more famous person to be against? Or perhaps two or three
> translators agreeing with each other that this breakage should be
> reversed? Would that be enough?
> 

As said, discussion. My experience has been that _very_ few people even
voice their concern here if they have any.

> I think we, translators, have to accept occasional string breakage and
> live with it.
> Though it is good to have developers being vigilant against haphazard
> changes during freeze-time.
> 
I agree.

> Perhaps, in the simple case of removing a space in a string, like the
> recent one in magicdev, the person who makes the change, should be
> required to check in the changes to the po files as well?
> 

It's tricky, some people have no problems with this, while others don't
like that their translations are changed by "outsiders".

Maybe we should just come up with guidelines for these kinds of things
that we could submit to the release-team/foundation/whatever and let
everyone abide by those?

Cheers
Kjartan