Re: gnome-panel HEAD

[Ole Laursen <olau hardworking dk>]

Mark McLoughlin <mark@skynet.ie> writes:
> 	I'm just doing up the release notes for the first 2.1 snapshot
> release of gnome-panel and I notice a lot of translation work that
> went into the gnome-2-0 branch didn't also go on HEAD. This means that
> none of this work will be in 2.2 ... Why aren't people committing to
> both branches ?

Personally, I usually try to avoid maintaining two branches at the
same time. Apart from having to update the sources of all modules back
and forth all the time, the biggest problem is that one then usually
ends up translating the same strings twice. Perhaps this can be
avoided by better use of the gettext tools, but it's a burden.

So my view is that people in general won't use the HEAD branch for
quite some time to come. I'd imagine the number of Danish users using
it is at most five. :-) So instead I maintain the gnome-2-0 branch and
port its .po file to HEAD when the time comes.

Don't worry, we won't throw away our 2.0 work, or forget the 2.2
release.

-- 
Ole Laursen
http://www.cs.auc.dk/~olau/