Hi Daniel,
I don't think translating the release notes is a worthwhile thing to
do;
Sure, but the problem here is that Damned Lies shows a lot of untranslated strings and translators have to download and review the files to discover if those new strings are from release notes or from UI.
the problem being is that translators don't get a chance to do it
for the current release between "write metainfo" and "prepare tarball"
as most maintainers just build the metainfo <release> when they write
the NEWS file, i.e. at release time.
I think the upstream appdata.its file marks these for translation
(shipped withlibappstream -- not maintained by me...), but that's not
something I agree with.
Yes, this is due to a recent change in Damned Lies but seeing the problems it might carry maybe we should discuss if it's worth to have it.
Thanks for your comments!
Richard
On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 at 14:40, Daniel Mustieles García
<daniel mustieles gmail com> wrote:
>
> Yes, the Appdata file has release notes from very old versions... maybe those strings could be removed/moved to another place.
>
> @Richard: any idea about how to deal with this?
>
> Thanks!
>
> El jue., 13 jun. 2019 a las 14:06, scootergrisen via gnome-i18n (<gnome-i18n gnome org>) escribió:
>>
>> Den 13-06-2019 kl. 11:39 skrev Daniel Mustieles García via gnome-i18n:
>> > Hi Claude,
>> >
>> > Is due to this change that gnome-software[1] has about 600 unstranslated
>> > new strings?
>> >
>> > It's a very big change in just one day... there is no way to reduce it?
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance
>> >
>> > [1] https://l10n.gnome.org/vertimus/gnome-software/master/po/es/
>> >
>>
>> Seems like strings for a lot of releases going back years:
>> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/blob/master/data/appdata/org.gnome.Software.appdata.xml.in
>>
>> Not sure if there is much point translating all those strings and users
>> might not see them anyway.
>>
>> If i search for GNOME software in GNOME software it says version
>> 3.30.6-2ubuntu4.19.04.1 but i see none of those strings. Maybe because
>> the version number does not match any of the strings exactly.
>>
>> Seems like a wast of time translation strings for a 2014 release.
>>
>> When can a user ever see it?
>>
>> I normally prefer to have things fully translated but on SMPlayer
>> website i can also translate a few new strings on each release but i
>> find it a bit waste of time because in next release its already outdated.
>>
>> If we have to translated release changes strings like this for every
>> software that would not be so much fun and the time could properly be
>> spendt better on improving the software.
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