Re: build breakages and translators

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 09:44:08AM +0100, Murray.Cumming@Comneon.com wrote:
> The release-team has noticed that some of the GNOME CVS build breakages have
> been caused by translators who have added or removed languages. 
> 
> In general, people should always check that a module builds before checking
> their changes into cvs. This is even more important for translators who
> might not have so much experience with cvs or build files.

This is a change in policy. It means that translators will have to be
able to build far more modules than any other developer -- which is a
large burden (given that some of them have very weird build
systems). Was this really the intention of the release team's discussion
at the last meeting?

> People often forget to "cvs add" new .po files.

Really?? From experience, it seems that the common cases are somehow
messing up configure.in or commit a badly-formed PO file.

Malcolm

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