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

Tue May 3 18:04:12 CEST 2011

Le mardi 03 mai 2011 à 17:00 +0200, Thierry Vignaud a écrit :
+> 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.
+
+For I18N, the vast majority do, afaik.
+
+
+> 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.
+
+AFAIK, I told to run "cd po; make foo.pot" after reading the Makfeile,
+since people didn't react to the bugs. But next time, we will directly
+assign the bugs to you, so you will at least have a good reason to be
+grumpy :p
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+