Op Ma, 2012-05-07 om 13:59 +0200 skryf Kenneth Nielsen: > 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 > > Regards Kenneth > > * These 63 off course also include genuinely new strings due e.g. to bug > fixes.
I tried to write some notes a while ago that might help a bit: https://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/DevGuidelines/Test%20internationalization Keep well Friedel -- Recently on my blog: http://translate.org.za/blogs/friedel/en/content/survey-about-usability-virtaal _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
