Re: gnome-applets string freeze breakage

[Ryan Lortie <desrt desrt ca>]

As per bug #171855, I was told by the maintainer of the module to
back-port my patch to STABLE.

Also, as per the bug, it is noted that this is a message that the end
user will never see.

Cheers

On Thu, 2005-31-03 at 12:03 +0200, Christian Rose wrote:
> There has been an unannounced string freeze breakage in the string
> frozen gnome-applets gnome-2-10 branch.
> 
> It is this added message:
> 
> 	#: gweather/gweather-pref.c:361
> 	msgid ""
> 	"Failed to load the Locations XML database.  Please report this as a bug."
> 
>         
> The relevant part of the ChangeLog seems to be this one:
> 
> 	2005-03-30  Ryan Lortie  <desrt desrt ca>
> 
>         ** MERGE CHANGES FROM HEAD **
> 
>         * gweather-pref.c: Add an error dialog asking the user to file a
>         bug in the case of an Locations.xml parse error.
> 
> (http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-applets/gweather/gweather-pref.c?r1=1.88&r2=1.88.2.1)
> 
> 
> No warning had been given in advance for this addition. GNOME is in
> string freeze, which means that prior announcement and approval of
> string changes and string additions is needed, as described on
> http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/tasks.html#ApprovingFreezeBreaks.
> 
> I suggest that this change should be reverted from the string frozen
> branch. If people disagree with that, then I would like to hear some
> motivation on why this change is considered important enough to break
> the freeze and why it cannot wait until the next development cycle.
> 
> 
> Christian
>