Re: "Apparent" string-freeze breaks in gok, gnopernicus

[danilo gnome org (Danilo Åegan)]

Today at 20:49, Christian Rose wrote:

> As a side note of this discussion, it would probably be useful if we
> could discuss intltool issues in terms of releases instead of something
> vague and everchanging such as "CVS HEAD". I certainly hope that noone
> never uses intltool CVS HEAD for anything but testing, and uses the
> latest stable release for any serious translation work. I certainly hope
> that the translation status pages uses nothing but the latest stable
> intltool release, and *never* CVS HEAD of intltool. The translation
> status pages should show what any translator should see if running
> intltool themselves, using the latest stable release.

That's sometimes hard to achieve.  For instance now with
evolution-exchange, I've sent a patch that would allow translators to
work on it.  Unfortunately, Kenneth was unavailable so it was
impossible for it to get committed to CVS, and a release to be made
(Rodney was probably busy with other stuff, since Evolution is a new
module in Gnome, they probably have many things to do; I've never
released a tarball and I'm not sure I'd know how to do that at all).
This means that evolution-exchange will have sub-standard
translations in upcoming Gnome 2.8 release.

If, OTOH, we used patched version of intltool for status pages,
translators would be at least able to grab PO files from the status
pages, and work on that.  It would have improved state of
evolution-exchange translations IMHO, even though it would deviate
from the rule you prefer.

>  Appearantly that intltool release (0.31.2) was never announced,
> neither here nor on gnome-announce-list, so it's difficult to extimate
> how old this release is, or how translators were supposed to know about
> it, but anyway.

If you look at
  http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/intltool/0.31/
you can see that it was put in there at 22-Aug-2004 21:07, which makes
it's lifetime around 20 days (and which means we were already in
string-freeze).

Cheers,
Danilo