Re: String additions to 'tracker.master'

[Piotr Drąg <piotrdrag gmail com>]

2014-03-17 16:14 GMT+01:00 Alexandre Franke <alexandre franke gmail com>:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com> wrote:
> > """
> > The following types of changes do not need explicit approval, however we
> > would still very much like them to be announced so that we know about them:
> >
> >  * Marking a message for translation that was previously not marked for
> > translation by accident.
> > ...
> > """
> >
> > The diff in question:
> > https://git.gnome.org/browse/tracker/commit/?id=443714ea5a1dea68eaebe5753c2233c33179379d
> >
> > There are 2 lines which were added for command line use only (so it's a
> > corner case) and weren't translated, so I've added them for translation
> > because they should have been.
> >
> > Please advise if I am wrong here.
>
> I am not an i18n coordinator, so take my words with a pinch of salt.
> I'd say it's not really the same in your case because the previous
> unmarked strings and the newly marked strings are not exactly the
> same. If you didn't change the strings, you'd be in that
> forgot-to-mark-them-by-accident situation, but I think here you are
> not.

I would argue that changing the strings didn't make a difference. They
weren't translatable, so their content before marking them with _
doesn't really matter. IMO this fits well into the "forgotten string"
case.

Best regards,

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Piotr Drąg
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