[kde-doc-english]Re: KDE_3_0_BRANCH: kdelibs/kdeprint/cups/cupsdconf

[Thomas Diehl]

Am Montag, 10. Juni 2002 00:23 schrieb Malcolm Hunter:

> > > Modified Files:
> > >          cupsdbrowsingtimeoutpage.cpp cupsddialog.cpp
> > >          cupsdserversecuritypage.cpp cupslocationdialog.cpp
> > > Log Message:
> > > Removed space before punctuation, etc.
> >
> > Why do you change i18n strings in the branch? That breaks more than it
> > fixes!
>
> Thomas wrote:
> "I hope we can get another merge shortly before 3.0.2 to get our desktop
> translations back in."

So what? I absolutely don't see how this would justify any cosmetic changes in 
the branch, not mentioning _lots_ of them. As everybody should know by now 
the policy for the branches is: no changes whatsoever to the i18n strings. If 
they really (I mean REALLY) can not be avoided due to _important_ bug fixes 
the translators must be notified via posting to kde-i18n-doc.

> I guess this won't be the case then.

I still hope it will be the case. This has nothing to do with the above rule 
though.

> These are very minor changes that
> don't affect the meaning.

But every single one of them affects _all_ the translations. They turn fuzzy 
after a merge and if a team does not notice or does not find the time for a 
fix their translations are not used any more. IOW: Cosmetic changes destroy 
lots of translations -- and for what?

 Anyway, I won't make any more changes from now
> on. I will revert the changes if you want, sorry.

I'm afraid it's too late now. Many teams probably have corrected their files 
already. And we would need another merge to get everything back. Please stick 
to the above policy in the future.

Regards,

Thomas

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