Re: major libgweather Locations updates

[Gil Forcada <gforcada gnome org>]

+10 to some kind of agreement, quite urgent if I'm allowed to add :)

Cheers,

El dc 20 de 08 de 2008 a les 14:08 +0200, en/na Kenneth Nielsen va
escriure:
> Hey everybody
> We need to come to some agreement on this soon
> 
> 2008/8/11 Dan Winship <danw gnome org>
>         Sorry about not getting back to this sooner. I talked with
>         Vincent about
>         this (with him wearing his libgweather maintainer hat, not his
>         release
>         team hat), and I think we agree that the possible scenarios
>         are
>         something like this, ranked from best to worst:
>         
>            1. Keep new Locations.xml.in, all translation teams fully
>         translate
>               it
>         
>            2. Keep new Locations.xml.in, translation teams translate
>         at least
>               the new locations in countries where their language is
>         widely
>               spoken
>         
>            3. Revert to old Locations.xml.in, use existing
>         translations
>         
>            4. Keep the new Locations.xml.in, no new translations
>         
>         Right now we're somewhere around 4, but it's not a whole lot
>         of effort
>         to get to 2, which I think is all we need to target for 2.24;
>         no one
>         using the Arabic localization is going to notice if there are
>         small
>         towns in Denmark left untransliterated.
> 
> Yeah, I suppose you are right. From this whole discussion however, I
> mean just from the errors that have come up during a discussion that
> is essentially about something else, I think it would seem that you
> need to put some more work into this, before asking anyone to use
> their spare time on it. I would propose that you create a new mailing
> list, where you get as many representatives from all the different
> countries or regions that you wish to include as you can, so that they
> can verify the validity of the amounts and descriptions of locations.
> And that no changes are being made in the criterions for a particular
> country without this representative has confirmed its sanity. I'll
> start with volunteering as the Danish representative. Anyway I agree
> that we can probably do option number 2 with little effort.
> 
> 
>         We also agreed that it might make sense to remove libgweather
>         (at least
>         the po-locations part) from the translation statistics, for
>         exactly that
>         reason; it's not like with ordinary UI strings, where any user
>         in any
>         language is equally likely to encounter any string.
> 
> Yes yes yes YES. No matter which of the options above the individual
> teams might end up doing, I would definitely want these OUT of the
> gnome 2.24 statistics, for the reasons I have mentioned earlier. (but
> which I realize that you Dan probably haven't seen since I forgot to
> CC you, I'll forward you a copy)
> 
> Regards Kenneth Nielsen
> 
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