Re: gpdf string freeze breakages

[R??mi Cohen-Scali <Remi Cohen-Scali com>]

Hi Christian and all i18 team

I already apologize on bugzilla, but I still send some apologize here.
I was about to send a warn on the list and by looking at the schedule I
thought 2.6.1 was released.
It is really not a lack of consideration for the wonderfull job the i18n 
team
provide for our projects. Just a misunderstanding.
Then please again apologize ... I'am one of your biggest fan ;-)

I'll be more mindfull of my duties ...

Christian Rose wrote:

>There have recently been two unannounced string freeze breakages in the
>string frozen gpdf gnome-2-6 branch.
>
>The first one is this added message:
>
>        #: shell/gpdf.c:546 xpdf/gpdf-control.cc:1024
>        msgid "PDF Documents"
>    
>The ChangeLog refers to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137952
>but no warning of any string addition had been given to translators on
>gnome-i18n@gnome.org.
>
>The second added message is this one:
>
>        #: shell/gpdf.c:550 xpdf/gpdf-control.cc:1028
>        msgid "All Files"
>
>The same ChangeLog entry applies to this added message. The ChangeLog
>entry is this one:
>
>        2004-05-03  Remi Cohen-Scali  <rcoscali@cvs.gnome.org>
>                Fix for Bug #137952.
>         
>                * xpdf/gpdf-control.cc (gpdf_control_get_filename)
>                Added file filters 'application/pdf' and '*' to
>                file choosers.
>         
>                * shell/gpdf.c (gw_ask_for_uri):
>                Fixed badly updated *.* in filter (must be *)
>         
>                * shell/gpdf.c (gw_ask_for_uri):
>                Added file filters 'application/pdf' and '*.*' to
>                file choosers.
>         
>
>No warning had been given in advance for any of these additions, even
>though the string freeze is still in effect for GNOME 2.6 software,
>which means that prior announcement and approval of string changes and
>string additions is still needed.
>
>Still, the patch and these additions look like they could be useful and
>needed, so offhand I'm not requesting they be reverted. Kjartan might
>not share that opinion though, I don't know his opinion.
>
>Anyway, committing string additions and string changes in the stable
>branch without informing translators is not only breaking the freeze,
>it's also very bad style, and I'd sure like to hope it wasn't done
>intentionally.
>
>
>Christian
>
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