On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Alex Gaynor <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Russell Keith-Magee
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I need some feedback/assistance from those with experience with the
>> translation tool set.
>>
>> Karen Tracey just pointed out that I may have made a booboo with the
>> handling of translations in the 1.1.X branch.
>>
>> I committed updates to trunk for the no, fr, nl, sk, cz and ro
>> translations. I also added two new stub translations: bn, fr-nl.
>>
>> I then proceeded to backport those translations to the 1.1.X branch.
>> The merge didn't raise any conflicts, but looking at the diffs, the
>> changes are mostly line number changes, not new content (although
>> there are a couple of translation changes and additions).
>>
>> This got noticed because I then *didn't* backport r12348, where I
>> updated the ga translation. As I recall, the merge wasn't clean.
>>
>> So, I need some advice from people that are more familiar with the i18n 
>> tools:
>>
>> Have I messed up here?
>>
>> Is a "backport if it merges cleanly" a reasonable approach? Or have I
>> made life more difficult for anyone trying to do a 1.1.X translation?
>>
>> Should I revert the translation updates for the 1.1.X branch?
>>
>> Are the rules the same for a completely new translation as for an
>> updated translation?
>>
>> FYI:  The affected revisions are 12325-12332, plus 12334.
>
> I'm not an expert here, but I recall Malcolm saying that it was his
> policy not to do backports of translation committs.

Jannis pointed me to this thead [1] from Malcolm, confirming this.

The question now becomes "should I revert those changesets?"

[1] 
http://groups.google.com/group/django-i18n/browse_thread/thread/c3547e3f082ac1e7

Russ %-)

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