Hi,
Mike Taylor wrote:
Checkpoint 20070709, created from the trunk as of revision 14974, is
ready for download.
The significance of this Checkpoint is that it represents the state of
the Chandler trunk at the point of the localized text freeze.
http://downloads.osafoundation.org/chandler/checkpoints/20070709/
Great job everyone! We worked hard to get to that point and here we are:
we are officially declaring Chandler Localization Frozen.
That means that now localizers across the planet will be able to extract
a Chandler.pot and get on producing their language localization egg
without fear of the strings changing underneath them and breaking their
localization efforts. As a matter of fact, Brian Kirsch is going to lead
such an effort no later than tomorrow during a EuroPython sprint in
Vilnius (Lituania).
Since the Python strings are used as key in translations, that means
that we don't want them to be modified: commits modifying localized
strings (not all strings, only those going through the translation
service) will be rolled back. Here's a quick list of does and don't:
- Suppressing a localized string in the code: that's OK, that simply
means that one string won't be used in the po. That doesn't break anything.
- Adding a localized string: that's next to the limit but if we
*absolutely* need to add such a string (e.g. warning dialog to the
user), the Bug Council may decide to authorize such a change. That means
though that said warning will appear in English in all languages. Not
great but may be better than an incomprehensible traceback or something
like that. Might be used sparingly.
- Modifying a localized string: this is a no-no and will be rolled back.
If you need to change and existing string, you can use the en_US
Chandler.po translation egg so that end user will get the change. As a
rule of thumb though, it's just safer to consider that this opportunity
is now gone.
Thanks for all of you who worked hard to get to this milestone. This is
great!
Cheers,
- Philippe
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