Re: RFC: Source string editing

[Adam Weinberger <adamw FreeBSD org>]

Christian Rose wrote:
> mån 2004-12-06 klockan 16:48 -0500 skrev Adam Weinberger:
> [...]
>
> > But no team spends more time dealing with strings than the GTP. Each 
> > source string is looked at by over 100 people. Noone other than an end 
> > user is more likely to notice a spelling or grammar error in a source 
> > string than a translator!
>
> [...]
>
> > I'd be interested in seeing how many module maintainers would like to 
> > give blanket approval to the GTP to edit strings to fix spelling and 
> > simple grammar errors. Presence of a README.strings or something to that 
> > effect could mean a green-light to the GTP to fix small errors as they 
> > crop up.
>
>
> I'm sure many module maintainers would appreciate help with fixing
> spelling errors. I know many of them already are.
>
> Still, you would have to ask each and everyone for permission to fix
> these changes, or asking them to add some comment to that affect as you
> mention. Different module maintainers may want different policies for
> their modules, and not every spelling change is as simple as a simple
> typo fix. Terminology changes or changes in style come to mind. Hence,
> instructions giving approval need to be explicit on what is and what
> isn't allowed, and we need such for each and every module.
>
> It's a very good idea. Feel free to go ahead and ask the module
> maintainers. If we could get something like README.strings standardised
> that would be a big help in figuring out what string fixes are and
> aren't allowed.

Is there a list upon which such a question should be asked? Like an "all 
module maintainers" list or somesuch?

# Adam


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