Re: Unauthorized translation changes in dconf-editor

[Jeremy Bicha <jbicha ubuntu com>]

On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 12:18 PM Piotr Drąg <piotrdrag gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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
>
> These changes were not consulted with any translation team or i18n
> coordinators. They also seem unneeded at best, and harmful at worst. I
> sent an email to Arnaud yesterday asking him to stop
> (https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2018-February/msg00081.html),
> but today even more changes were committed. Please advise.
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Piotr Drąg

I am reviving this old thread because it looks like Arnaud never
stopped making his changes. He has created separate "maintainer-only"
branches. He makes his release tags and tarball releases from those
branches. This has continued with the dconf-editor 3.32.0 release from
a few days ago.

This behavior is very disruptive to the translator workflow.
Translators have a very reasonable expectation that their translations
(as seen in the master and stable git branches and at l10n.gnome.org)
will make it to distros and users without being "fixed" in a hidden
way first.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/dconf-editor/tags
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/dconf-editor/commits/maintainer-only-3-32

Jeremy