On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 10:34 AM Yuri Chornoivan via gnome-i18n < [email protected]> wrote:
> субота, 29 травня 2021 р. 11:24:46 EEST Alexandre Franke написано: > > On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 7:17 PM Yuri Chornoivan via gnome-i18n < > > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Hi, > > > > There is a huge problem with old branches in whole GNOME. You can have > the > > > > > master branch translated but the actual package can contain some old > > > stable > > > branch (say 3.22) that you cannot see from the main team page. If you > do > > > not > > > know where to find the _actual_ branch it becomes a real PITA for the > > > users. > > > > How is this a problem exactly? Old branches are most probably not going > to > > see a release and translations brought to them would then never reach the > > user. *That* would indeed be wasted work. On the rare occasion where you > > know that a given old branch will have a release, you can still find it, > as > > you pointed out. > > That's it. No releases, no new translations, no updates. Translation of > master > is a waste of time (?). > No releases for old branches (like 3.22, which was your example). Work should be done on the current stable branch + master. Always. It’s working on old releases that is a waste of time. > Translations and Damned lies are not a completionist game where the goal > is > > to have 100%, even on past releases. Old releases may not be fully > > translated, and that is fine. > > "If you didn't come to party, then why did you come here?" (Jarvis Cocker) > > That's too bad. I've tried to complete GNOME translations (master and > "stable" > branches) through almost 1.5 years but just a quick glance on LP shows the > discrepancy for the "old good applications" with "stable" branch with no > new > releases. With no regular release system (like KDE releases), translating > these GNOME applications is just a waste of time. > What are you talking about? I said that working on **anything else than master+stable** was a waste of time. We do have regular releases, please don’t make such statements if you don’t know what you are talking about. See https://wiki.gnome.org/FortyOne for the current cycle. -- Alexandre Franke GNOME Hacker
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