Hi Alexandre, It's ok for me to copy the old PO files to avoid repeating translations already done in the past.
Many thanks for asking us about this, I think your proposal makes sense and it's a good idea to do it. Regards El lun, 28 mar 2022 a las 18:47, Alexandre Franke (<[email protected]>) escribió: > Hello, > > CCing Julian, co-maintainer of the Fractal > > As some of you may know, a rewrite of Fractal has been happening for a > while now. The master branch was mostly inactive while the rewrite was > happening on the fractal-next branch. The application was not yet > usable, we didn’t even offer a nightly flatpak, and the pace of > changes was such that it didn’t make sense to put it on Damned lies > yet. We are now about to change that. > > `master` will be renamed to `legacy` and `fractal-next` will be > renamed to `main`. `main` will, as the name states, become the main > branch. A nightly flatpak will be provided through the GNOME apps > nightly repository, replacing the current nightly built from `master`. > The application is not advanced enough to be considered beta, we are > not replacing the beta and stable builds from flathub. This is still > in development and we are not freezing strings yet, but we’ve reached > a point where strings are going to be moving a lot less and it makes > sense to start translating. I’ll announce when the change happens so > we can do the switcheroo on DL. > > That’s for the heads up to translators. Now the question that came up > when planning this is whether we could bring back the old translations > to provide a base for translators, so they don’t have to start from > scratch if the old version was already translated. I am the first one > to say that developers should stay away from po files, but in this > case… I don’t know. Can we just copy over files from the old `po` > directory` into the new one? We aren’t going to “touch” the files and > try any magic, merging, or replacement. This would be a simple > copy-paste of the files. I think that is the same thing we’ve been > doing in the past for instance for release notes. Does that work here? > > Cheers, > > -- > Alexandre Franke > GNOME Hacker > _______________________________________________ > gnome-i18n mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n >
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