Re: Release set inclusion criteria?

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le lundi 10 septembre 2012 à 19:48 -0400, Chris Leonard a écrit :
> Dear Release Set maintainers,
> 
> What exactly qualifies a package for inclusion in the Release Set
> "External Dependencies (GNOME)"?

Hi Chris,

The "(GNOME)" part implies that the code is hosted in the GNOME git
infrastructure.

> Given that Epiphany Web Browser
> http://l10n.gnome.org/module/epiphany/
> 
> has a dependency on WebKitGTK+ (and it's L10n), does WebKitGTK+
> qualify for that or some other more prominent Release Set?
> 
> http://l10n.gnome.org/module/webkit/
> 
> Note these tickets (from Epiphany dev asking for WebKitGTK+ L10n):
> 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=610094%2C+610095%2C+610102%2C+610103%2C+610106%2C+610109%2C+610110%2C+610111%2C+610112%2C+610113%2C+610115%2C+610118%2C+610120%2C+610125%2C+610128%2C+610129%2C+610135%2C+610138%2C+610139%2C+610142%2C+610144%2C+610145%2C+610146%2C+610147%2C+610149%2C+610150%2C+610151%2C+610153%2C+610155%2C+610158%2C+610159%2C+610160%2C+610161%2C+610162%2C+610163%2C+610164%2C+610165
> 
> The importance of this is that WebKitGTK+ is not presently a member of
> any Release Set (other than OLPC) and it is not getting the L10n it
> deserves.
> 
> Yes, it is absolutely true that WebKitGTK+ has other issues with it's
> i18n at present, but making it more visible can only help that i18n
> issue get the attention it requires.

There are several other external packages that contain visible strings
in GNOME (notably those hosted on the Translation Project). We (I?)
choose at some point to limit ourselves to GNOME git + some freedesktop
translation stats. It's somewhat arbitrary and we can decide to change
it or add more exceptions. But generally-speaking I find it rather
frustrating to have statistics on packages you may have to wait several
months before anyone react upstream :-/

As for WebKitGTK+, it's not an option to make it more visible until DL
can generate a proper POT file. The last time it succeeded was on
2010-12-27!

Claude
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