Hello, On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Kenneth Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hallo developers. > > Since the release of GNOME 3.4 we have received a steady stream of emails > saying "This is not a string freeze break, we just forgot to mark the > strings for translation". So much so, that the statistics e.g. for my > language (which has not been touched since release) now counts 63* > untranslated or fuzzy strings in a source that was at 0 at release time, > three weeks ago. > > I understand the reason for not counting marking existing strings as a > string freeze break. But please understand that even though you are in your > right to fix things like this post release, and even though it off course > makes sense to do it, it does not mean that it is not annoying and a burden > for translators. > > The reason for this is that we concentrate large amounts of work in the > period just before release (where string changes are relatively quiet), so > therefore it is also an advantage for us if we can finish as much of it as > possible in that period (of course also because a lot of us has an extra hat > as distribution translators for distributions that follow within a month or > so of the gnome release). On top of that, small updates are > uncharacteristically expensive in a work/string-sense because they involve > the same amount of emails back and forth for proofreading and git work. > > So please... If you could make a bit more of an effort of checking your > sources for non-internationalized strings before release that would be > great. IMHO 63 is just a bit on the high side of where this number should be Can't this be half-automatized? like with a bash script that checks the strings, which are marked and which not? It could be helpful.
> Regards Kenneth Kind regards. > > * These 63 off course also include genuinely new strings due e.g. to bug > fixes. > _______________________________________________ > gnome-i18n mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n -- Jorge González González <[email protected]> Weblog: http://aloriel.turismogoogle.net Weblog: http://turismogoogle.net Fotolog: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aloriel _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
