Re: String additions to 'gnome-control-center.gnome-3-8'

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 10:11 +0100, Frederic Peters wrote:
> Hi Bastien,
>
> > > > You pushed your change to master and also to the 3.8 and 3.10 branches,
> > > > but those stable branches are string frozen; you commit thus broke the
> > > > string freeze.  Please revert or ask for permission.
> > >
> > > Sorry, I didn't know the Gnome schedules, but the change adds a missing
> > > feature and should not be reverted.
> > > The change has been committed as per bgo #720312 by Bastien.
> >
> > I've unmarked the string for translation in gnome-3-8 and gnome-3-10,
> > which should be acceptable for now.
>
> The point of the string freeze is not to have new English strings pop
> up in the interface; intentionally not marking strings as translatable,
> while they should be, is absolutely not a solution, and that's a
> misconception that should have died years ago.
>
> The options are simple, please revert or ask for permission.

I actually think it's fine in this particular case, it's a string that
almost never is presented to users, and I'm not even sure that it should
be marked for translation to begin with.