Re: Unauthorized translation changes in dconf-editor

[Piotr Drąg <piotrdrag gmail com>]

2018-03-04 17:51 GMT+01:00 Arnaud Bonatti <arnaud bonatti gmail com>:
> Hi everybody, sorry for the delayed reply. I don’t check these lists
> daily, and my filters has also hidden the direct mail, sorry Piotr
> Drąg. :·(
>
> 2018-03-01 18:18 UTC+01:00, Piotr Drąg <piotrdrag gmail com>:
> > A few days ago Arnaud Bonatti, the dconf-editor maintainer, started
> > committing changes to translations:
> >
> > https://git.gnome.org/browse/dconf-editor/log/po?qt=author&q=Arnaud+Bonatti
>
> Yes. I’m sorry. I’m a perfectionist, and directly working on things
> helps me seen how the “dconf-editor product” finishes in people hands,
> for improving it. In all my po files edits, I’ve spotted tenths of
> typos in various languages, one bug in the generation of eight strings
> (translated by translators, but not applied to the application; I’m
> currently working on a fix for before the last unstable release), and
> one case where I should improve code for helping i18n.
>
> Hope that hasn’t caused too much “harm” for teams, but that has been
> really helpful from a releaser/maintainer point of view. I’ve notably
> realized how many strings are translated and how useful/not-so-useful
> ones are mixed, and will probably ask for a split of the “demo” string
> in a following cycle, so translators of small teams could concentrate
> on the application general UI. And globally, I’m more aware now of
> some problems of my code, and that’ll help in the future.
>
> 2018-03-01 21:10 UTC+01:00, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro posteo net>:
> > Normally, the translators like to update their po files themselves.
> > Just like you probably don't want translators modifying your code. ;) I
> > know you're just trying to reduce fuzziness of the strings, but I would
> > leave these files alone from now on, OK?
>
> Well, if some translators want to improved my code in revenge, I’d
> honestly thank them to do so. ^^ But I understood, that’s not
> something I’ll redo, I just needed to have a view of what was
> happening between code and users, and that has been enlightening. I’ve
> finished, apart for the big bug I’m working on, but that’s for a
> following email. ^^

You’re welcome to post patches at
<https://bugzilla.gnome.org/page.cgi?id=browse.html&product=l10n> next
time you feel like “improving”.

It would be best if you could revert all these commits.

-- 
Piotr Drąg
https://piotrdrag.fedorapeople.org