Re: run dialog vs gnome_vfs_url_show

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 20:21, Danilo Segan wrote:
> ïîíåäåšàê, 25. àâãóñò 2003. 20:05:28 CEST — Alexander Larsson íàïèñà:
> > 
> > The strings are just copy-and-pasted from the rest of the file with
> > minimal changes (i.e. changed trash to http). I know they are not
> > perfect, but they are not worse than the rest of them, and it was
> > important to get this into todays beta release.
> 
> And it isn't at all important to have any of these strings translated 
> in "todays beta release"? :-(

Did I say that they were not important at all? I did not, and I don't
think so. However, I do consider having a panel that doesn't hang and
links working in the terminal to be more important than getting 100%
theoretical translation coverage. If that makes me a bad person, so be
it.

> Yikes, but the string freeze is there just for that purpose -- to have 
> a chance to get all the strings translated (even in beta releases), so 
> users of those beta release could also report omissions in translations 
> of strings.
> 
> 
> If you don't care about the translation (which, unfortunately, seems to 
> be the case), that's why there's the established protocol one must 
> follow -- ask release team *and* translators if it's ok to add them.

I did not ask christian, and I'm sorry about that. That was a breach of
protocol. Its just that sometimes when I spend a day fixing a bug in
order to get a bad bug out of an imminent release I get sort of carried
away. I did talk to various people (in the release team etc) on irc,
although there was no official "ok" from the release team on any mailing
list.

> And of course, there'll be only a one or two languages with complete 
> translations in that beta release, for the particular reason that the 
> strings were added right before the release. That's just bad practice, 
> and it should be discouraged -- strings should be added *early* in the 
> release cycle, to give translators a chance.

Yes. Anyone could have fixed this bug earlier. That would have been
better. However, nobody did, so we got this situation.

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