Re: String additions to 'empathy.gnome-2-28'

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le samedi 03 octobre 2009 à 00:03 +0200, Gabor Kelemen a écrit :
> Cosimo Cecchi írta:
> > Hi Andre and GNOME translators,
> >
> > On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 20:43 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi Guillaume & Cosimo,
> >>
> >> please revert the following string changes in the gnome-2-28 branch as
> >> it is string-frozen, or send a formal string freeze break request:
> >>     
> >
> >   
> >> "Translators: this is used only when built on a moblin platform"
> >> comments are unhelpful. Why should I care about that?
> >>     
> >
> > It means that these strings do not exist in regular Empathy builds, and
> > they're turned on only when Empathy is built on a Moblin platform
> > (they're all guarded with #ifdef clauses); so translators are free to
> > ignore them.
> >
> >   
> Why?
> Do you think we translators want to see a few untranslated strings in 
> Empathy on Moblin? :)
> Even if most of our users won't use Moblin, this does not mean we don't 
> care about those who will.
> 
> However, if you would say this is needed for the Moblin version of 
> Empathy 2.28, which will be part
> of a Moblin release soon (like about 2.28.1 or .2 time), I'd give one 
> i18n approval :).

Please, either revert the changes or formally ask for a string freeze
break.

Claude