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If +</I>><i> you do it on svn side I just have to do it again, before uploading the +</I>><i> vhanges to Tx. +</I> +1) not everybody use transiflex. + +2) why force people to go through transifex in order to fix changes that should +never have been done? +only part of those changes should have resulted in changed strings. +we've always run perl -pi -e in order not to disturb translators +with not real changes. + +3) please use more descriptive changes, else it's hard to see what +actually changed. +eg: "typo fix (s/owerwrite/overwrite/) +instead of "typo fix (Bug #961)" + +><i> But I did break a few files and am about fixing them. +</I> +Please always look at svn diff output before commiting +(or in case of big changes, look at list to "svn diff|diffstat") +That would prevent such errors + +Last but not least, please separate commiting the actual typo fix +from syncing with + +These are two orthogonal things: +1) merging a typo fix +2) syncing with code: syncing line numbers and maybe + fuzzying changed/deleting old /adding new lines. + +Please only run "make merge" and the like only if there're actually be +changes. +Here there were none, so it both: +- just add useless noise (line renumbering) to the diff for no use +- introduce changes for other translators to have conflicts when running + "svn up" for no good reasons. + +IMHO "make merge" should only be run by developers when actually +adding/deleting/changing lines which was not the case here. + +Else, if it's just a typo for the english language, just run "perl -pi +-e" on the +catalogs too in order to prevent useless work for translators + +Only if meaning has changed, then update the catalogs +though "make merge" +One can also reduce the SNR for translators by doing: +- mv *.pot /tmp +- make *.pot +- diff -u -I "^#" /tmp/ *.pot > l +- #review l +- svn revert *pot; patch -p0<l + +It isn't worth applying all the renumbering when one knows +it'll change tomorrow again... + +My 2 cents +</PRE> + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="004372.html">[Mageia-dev] [1083] merged typo corrections (bug #960) in po files +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="004376.html">[Mageia-dev] [1083] merged typo corrections (bug #960) in po files +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#4374">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#4374">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#4374">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#4374">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |