Nathaniel Smith spake unto us the following wisdom: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 02:16:40PM +0100, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: > > Heh, on the other hand, the same thing usually happens to the > > translators as well, and I guess the worst is when you end up with a > > bunch of fuzzy entries. Other than that, I don't really see the harm, > > but being new at this, it would probably be good to hear from those > > that have done this for a little longer... > > I _think_ the point is that they want to merge in new translations at > a time that they choose, rather than having it just happen (possibly > creating a bunch of spurious conflicts on their end)?
You can help mitigate these problems by having translatable string freezes shortly before releases, and releasing new .potfiles at that time. There are a number of tools to reconcile the existing transla- tions and newly translatable entries which the translators can use to minimize the pain. This removes the necessity of following a rapidly moving and sometimes inconsistent target (i.e., strings on a development branch) and makes translators' jobs easier. For the Gaim project, we try to freeze strings roughly one week before minor-ish releases, and longer for releases with a lot of visible string changes. The schedules are known to the regular translators (I forget the details, but I think strings freeze on Saturday for Thursday releases?), and we try to keep the translators in the loop when bizarre schedule mixups are going on. We have created a gaim-i18n mailing list for this very purpose. This also provides a place for translators to hash out issues with the strings to be translated (for example, we have had several plurality problems which had to be resolved by minor changes in program code to make plurals work in all of our supported languages). Of course, a discussion with your regular translators about their pre- ferred practices is also helpful. :-) Hope that helps, Ethan -- The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws [that have no remedy for evils]. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. -- Cesare Beccaria, "On Crimes and Punishments", 1764
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