[Mageia-dev] [1083] merged typo corrections (bug #960) in po files

Tue May 3 17:00:20 CEST 2011

On 3 May 2011 16:39, Oliver Burger <oliver.bgr at googlemail.com> wrote:
+>> Please stop doing that.
+>> You're destroying correct translations.
+>> You should have run "perl -pi -e 's/sertificate/certificate/" on
+>> the *.po instead of fuzzying the translations.
+>> Now every translator will have to check what was the change that
+>> broke the translation...
+>
+> Fixing those things must be done on Transifex side and I will do that. If
+> you do it on svn side I just have to do it again, before uploading the
+> vhanges to Tx.
+
+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)"
+
+> But I did break a few files and am about fixing them.
+
+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
+