Re: String freeze breakage: gnome-applets/po-locations/*

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

sön 2004-08-22 klockan 01.28 skrev Simos Xenitellis:
> > Can you tell us:
> > 
> > * What changed? Which exact messages were affected?
> 
> What changed: 
> Entries related to the file gnome-applets/gweather/Locations.xml.in
> with regards to countries: Greece, Cyprus.
> 
> What exact messages were affected (diff between original file to final
> file):

Ok, thanks.


> > * Where's the Bugzilla bug report where this patch was discussed?
> 
> I did not submit the above patch as a bug report, if you are referring
> to that.
> 
> In a previous e-mail I was referring to the explanation provided in this
> bug report:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89746#c53

If you want to break string freeze, please always put your patch in a
bug report so that it can be appropriately examined and reviewed.


> > * Why couldn't this change have been applied before the freeze, and why
> > can't it wait until after the freeze?
> 
> I did not know that gnome-applets/po-locations/ were counted in the
> string freeze.
> 
> I was having in mind what I said in
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89746#c53
> that po-Locations should not be part of the stats (therefore string
> freeze), as it is impractical 
> to translate all messages. 

String freeze goes by modules, not domains. gnome-applets HEAD is string
frozen, period.

(and po-locations is part of our stats, but that's irrelevant to this
discussion).


[...]
> > After we have that information, *then* we can discuss whether this
> > change is important enough to breake the freeze and whether it should be
> > reverted or not.
> 
> I do not press you to accept the changes. Feel free to revert my commits
> as I may re-apply them after this release.

I don't approve of the changes.

1) There was ample of time before to fix this issue, and the schedule
was public.
2) I don't see why there is a need to absolutely break the freeze for
these changes, and why it absolutely can't wait. In no way does this
look like critical bugs that can't wait until the freeze is over.

(and in addition, string freeze is there for translators. If translators
themselves are the worst offenders and not respecting the freeze and
respecting other translators, then we probably will have a hard time to
convince maintainers to respect it aswell)

Thus, I'd like you to revert these changes from HEAD as soon as
possible.

Put your patch in a bug report and then we might perhaps revisit this
after the 2.8.0 release.


Christian