Re: Should translators change source strings?

[Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec suse cz>]

Adam Weinberger wrote:

> We are under-utilizing our translators' abilities. For every developer 
> that doesn't wish to spend his or her time making grammar and spelling 
> changes, I propose the following:
> 
> Every module may have a file named po/README.TRANSLATORS. In this file, 
> developers may put instructions such as "Only simple spelling and 
> grammar fixes" or "Please make any change necessary" or "Do not make 
> changes at all" or "You break it, you buy it". Absence of 
> po/README.TRANSLATORS will mean that translators have implicit 
> permission to edit the source strings themselves to resolve simple, 
> obvious grammar and spelling errors. (I.e.  more complex or non-obvious 
> changes will still require a bugzilla bug to be filed.)

> Developers: what say you? Do you like this idea?

It would be nice to add:

If you fix a typo or wording in source string, it would be nice to fix
the string in all .po files to prevent fuzzy translations:

There is an example:

# do the change
sed 's/\(^msgid .*\)ytpo/\1typo/' *.po
# verify it
cvs diff

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Best Regards / S pozdravem,

Stanislav Brabec
software developer
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