high gnopernicus string count

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

Hey, folks. The release team was alerted last week that gnopernicus
contains nearly 1,000 strings- which by itself would increase the
current GNOME core string count by around 8%, and is larger than
everything else in the core except the applets, games, and file manager.
This is a concern for the release team because of the stress it will put
on our smaller translation teams.

I understand that gnopernicus covers a lot of ground and has a lot of
unusual UI requirements, but this seems like a very large number, and
it's a large additional burden on the translators. Is there the
possibility that unnecessary or additional strings are being translated,
or that there is some other way we can review the strings before the
string freeze to make sure everything is as sane and correct as
possible? While the release team can't do much directly, we would like
to urge the a11y and i18n teams to work together here very shortly to
help cut down on the number of strings if that's at all possible. 

Anyway... hope this can start some dialogue here-
Luis

At any rate, hopefully this email