Re: ACLs and translation

[Karl Eichwalder <ke suse de>]

Dennis Bjorklund <db zigo dhs org> writes:

> To create comments you need the cvs tree and somewhere to send the
> patch. I don't really care if I have access to the cvs-tree myself.

read-only should suffice.  But don't worry -- nobody wants to take away
CVS access for you!

> Any scheme which involves just getting a .po file to translate is
> broken. Even translations needs to be tested and I can think of many,
> many times where I have been reading the code to understand how a
> string is used, just to know how it should be translated.

Please consider this is a perfect situation.  Regular translators aren't
able to read source (okay they can learn it...).  Sure, it's needed to
test a translation; this doesn't have to be done by the translator
himself.

> Emacs has this nice feature that when you are in a .po file standing
> on a string to translate it can open and jump to the correct place in
> the code for you.

That's a feature I use all the time :)

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