Re: Stripped translations for gnome-user-guide

[Brent Smith <gnome nextreality net>]

Danilo Šegan wrote:
> Hi Nickolay,
>
> Today at 10:57, Nickolay V. Shmyrev wrote:
>
>
> > Sorry, probably I've missed something, but why gnome-user-docs 2.14
> > goes without Russian translation? Of course, it's incomplete, around
> > 40 percent of strings were translated in CVS, but some sections were
> > translated completely. What was the problem? Italian was included
> > but it's also far from complete.
>
>
> Yeah, I am very sorry to hear this too.  Strip Italian out as well! ;)
>
> Just kidding, but actually, including even half-completed stuff is
> essential to translators and users: translators get the satisfaction
> of all of their hours of work actually ending up in the distribution
> and being seen by users, and users get the benefit of looking at least
> part of the documentation in their own language.  If they are bothered
> with it not being complete (which will most likely be the case), there
> are better chances they might help with translation!
>
> Who should we punch in the face? Brent? ;)

Danilo,  yes that would be me.  I'm sorry about this but I've never
released gnome-user-docs before and I was running into validation errors
with some of the translations when running make distcheck.  I think
these might have been with es and nl and I accidentally removed russian
as well.  I was going to contact you to do the release b/c I couldn't 
get past these errors, but I decided to just remove the translations
that were causing problems instead.  Since Shaun originally asked
fatalerror to do the release, and fatalerror asked me to do it and it
was 2:30am at night when I rolled it, I might have not been thinking 
clearly.

Everytime I did make distcheck on a fresh checkout it took literally 30
minutes to compile all the translations.  Is there any way we can speed
up xml2po?  The more languages that we translate gnome-user-docs to, the
longer this process is going to take and the harder releases are going
to be.

Again, I'm very sorry about this -  If you want to contact release-team
and re-roll the release to include russian, I won't blame you

What should the process be for translations that cause validation errors
in the future?

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Brent Smith <gnome nextreality net>
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