As one of Slavic translators I must say that we indeed should delay it. I admit gnome-software l10n side isn't perfect at the moment. For example, while translating it I reported the following bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726420 I consider for now these are minor issues we can live with.
2014-03-17 16:53 GMT+02:00 Alexandre Franke <alexandre.fra...@gmail.com>: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Piotr Drąg <piotrd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2014-03-17 14:43 GMT+01:00 Matthias Clasen <matthias.cla...@gmail.com>: > >> I've attached a patch in > >> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726428 that adds message > >> context to several translated strings in gnome-software. The bug was > >> filed by a translator, but I wonder if this is too disruptive this > >> close to the release, and should wait ? > >> > > > > I'm torn here, because on the one hand these would considerably > > increase translation quality (at least for most Slavic languages), but > > on the other hand it's quite late in the cycle. What do other > > coordinators and translators think? > > I'm the coordinator for the French team and I'm the one who filed the > bug during the translation hackfest we had last weekend. We decided > not to wait for the context to be added and to translate it in the > meantime. The issue is for "Unknown" which could be either masculine > or feminine in French depending on what is the unknown entity. We > translated it to the masculine "Inconnu" and it kind of works even if > it's not perfect. It's not shocking to have it this way, just not > really correct. > > I'd say it's reasonable to let it as is and delay the fix until after > the release, but I wouldn't be annoyed if it was fixed now. > > -- > Alexandre Franke > _______________________________________________ > gnome-i18n mailing list > gnome-i18n@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n >
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