Re: gnome-control-center string freeze breakage

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 01:45:27AM +0100, Christian Rose wrote:
> There has been an unannounced string freeze breakage in the
> string frozen gnome-control-center gnome-2-4 branch.
> 
> This seems to be the commit in
> capplets/theme-switcher/theme-properties.glade that caused the
> unannounced string additions:
> 
> ----------------------------
> 1.27.2.1 <muktha> 2004-01-05 09:30
> 2004-01-05 Muktha <muktha.narayan@wipro.com>
> 
> * theme-properties.glade: Add accessible name and description.
> Fixes bug #128377.
> ----------------------------
> 
> This is the change:
> http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/cvsview2.cgi?diff_mode=context&whitespace_mode=show&root=/cvs/gnome&subdir=gnome-control-center/capplets/theme-switcher&command=DIFF_FRAMESET&file=theme-properties.glade&rev2=1.27.2.1&rev1=1.27
> 
> Communication with translators regarding string changes at supposedly
> frozen times is very important. This is also true even for bug fixes. If
> you feel the need to break a freeze, follow the procedure outlined on
> http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/tasks.html#ApprovingFreezeBreaks to
> get approval first, and please respect the freezes otherwise.
> 
> Unless this string addition is absolutely essential to have in the
> string frozen gnome-2-4 branch, I suggest the string addition be
> reverted from that branch.

My apologies for oking the commit.  I forgot that accessibility
descriptions were translated.  However, I do not reccommend
reverting.  In this case the string is obscure enough that it is
better for it to exist untranslated IMO.