Please check your sources for strings not marked for translation before release

[Kenneth Nielsen <k nielsen81 gmail com>]

Hallo developers.

Since the release of GNOME 3.4 we have received a steady stream of 
emails saying "This is not a string freeze break, we just forgot to mark 
the strings for translation". So much so, that the statistics e.g. for 
my language (which has not been touched since release) now counts 63* 
untranslated or fuzzy strings in a source that was at 0 at release time, 
three weeks ago.

I understand the reason for not counting marking existing strings as a 
string freeze break. But please understand that even though you are in 
your right to fix things like this post release, and even though it off 
course makes sense to do it, it does not mean that it is not annoying 
and a burden for translators.

The reason for this is that we concentrate large amounts of work in the 
period just before release (where string changes are relatively quiet), 
so therefore it is also an advantage for us if we can finish as much of 
it as possible in that period (of course also because a lot of us has an 
extra hat as distribution translators for distributions that follow 
within a month or so of the gnome release). On top of that, small 
updates are uncharacteristically expensive in a work/string-sense 
because they involve the same amount of emails back and forth for 
proofreading and git work.

So please... If you could make a bit more of an effort of checking your 
sources for non-internationalized strings before release that would be 
great. IMHO 63 is just a bit on the high side of where this number should be

Regards Kenneth

* These 63 off course also include genuinely new strings due e.g. to bug 
fixes.