Re: Request for UI and String freeze break for DoS bug

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>]

Done. I have added a patch to bugzilla which provides an option to set
the limit in Edit->Preferences instead of ENV variable.

Thanks
Srini.
On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 15:14 +0100, Francisco Javier F. Serrador wrote:
> Yep, translators usually are proud of being the first to reach 100%
> translated string completion, but, users who get a completely localized
> application also expect that it does not crash :). We target users, (and
> clients), and users do not know how to set env variables, and if you
> force them to do so, they will use other application.
> 
> We need string freeze to avoid getting a ton of new strings some days
> before release, but not to prevent critical bug fixes as this from being
> resolved.  If this specific bug were less severe I will do not agree to
> break the string freeze.
> 
> El vie, 17-11-2006 a las 16:50 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan escribi� > If I get you right, you mean a configuration option in Preferences to
> > set the message limit, instead of a ENV variable. Am I right? I think
> > it
> > should be fairly possible. It is just a matter of time. I'm not sure,
> > If
> > I can push that before 2.8.2, but definitely possible for further
> > releases on stable, if the release team approves them too :).
> > 
>