On Tue, Jun 9, 2026 at 12:24 PM Neil Roberts <[email protected]> wrote:
> It looks like the patch below has changed the context of a whole bunch > of strings so Weblate thinks they are new: > > > https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/114bc67a2d2f1b9f84f68a3f3d1a93077ef4e369%5E > ! > > Yikes! > > Hopefully there’s a way to get the old translations back. > Christian has done some magic in the past to recover translations in cases like patch reverts, and he has automated changes like copyright-year updates in a way that needs no translator involvement (thanks for that! Some of us try to maintain more than one language in Weblate so this is hugely appreciated…). It would be good to know what steps need to be performed (perhaps documented in the wiki) so that this knowledge isn’t siloed away and hopefully other contributors can help in this kinds of situations that suddenly put a huge workload on a few shoulders. I imagine that could even help unblock long-stalled minor typographic upgrades that haven’t been done because they would trigger retranslations. By the way, it’s unfortunate that this extraordinary situation had to happen while TDF is losing a sysadmin… Adolfo -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/l10n/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
