Re: Should translators change source strings?

[Francisco Javier Fernandez <serrador tecknolabs com>]

I completely agree. Filling a bug in that case is completely non-sense.

Stanislav Brabec wrote:

>Adam Weinberger wrote:
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>>We are under-utilizing our translators' abilities. For every developer 
>>that doesn't wish to spend his or her time making grammar and spelling 
>>changes, I propose the following:
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>>Every module may have a file named po/README.TRANSLATORS. In this file, 
>>developers may put instructions such as "Only simple spelling and 
>>grammar fixes" or "Please make any change necessary" or "Do not make 
>>changes at all" or "You break it, you buy it". Absence of 
>>po/README.TRANSLATORS will mean that translators have implicit 
>>permission to edit the source strings themselves to resolve simple, 
>>obvious grammar and spelling errors. (I.e.  more complex or non-obvious 
>>changes will still require a bugzilla bug to be filed.)
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>>Developers: what say you? Do you like this idea?
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>It would be nice to add:
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>If you fix a typo or wording in source string, it would be nice to fix
>the string in all .po files to prevent fuzzy translations:
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>There is an example:
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># do the change
>sed 's/\(^msgid .*\)ytpo/\1typo/' *.po
># verify it
>cvs diff
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