Re: run dialog vs gnome_vfs_url_show

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

mån 2003-08-25 klockan 23.10 skrev Danilo Segan:
> > I think that if the strings are going to be approved, they should be
> > checked in without the problems you have pointed out. The teams that
> > have already updated the strings are the most active teams. They
> > should have hardly no problems to update again.
> 
> I just think it's wrong to assume that "most active teams" have some 
> time to waste (or, that it's ok for them, being most active, to waste 
> some time). Yes, it would not impact the Gnome project as a whole 
> (because those teams would update those strings again), but it's still 
> plain wrong to think of it that way.
> 
> OTOH, I agree that the strings should be as good as they can be, but 
> that brings us to the problem how this particular issue has been 
> carried out -- wrong from the start.

Exactly. "The freeze has already been broken so let's break it some
more" very quickly gets out of hand. Often immediately out of hand --
when people assume that the freeze is not worth respecting because of
the fact that there has already been many breakages by others, it only
gets worse. And worse. And so on.
That's why we really need to be pedantic about freezes.


> Of course, in the current situation, I *am* all for fixing those 
> strings and making them better (if they get approved first).
> 
> Perhaps we need to be more active in introducing developers with the 
> way to handle changes to strings while in string freeze. Does anyone 
> have any thoughts on improving this part of the problem?

It's not just developers. Translators seem to need education as well on
what string freeze is, and why we have them.


Christian