[Kde-extra-gear] About ktorrent translations

[Joris Guisson]

I use the update_l10n_stable.sh script to update the stable translations :

http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/scripts/

> Also i'm not completely sure it is a good idea to overwrite stable files with
> trunk ones without asking team leaders or kde-i18n-doc because maybe stable
> ones are more translated that trunk ones, but that is another question.

I believe the current way of doing things is to translate in trunk and
only do stable when the specific app is in string freeze. That's why
before string freeze the stable translations need to be updated.
Seeing that this is the current way of doing things, the script isn't
doing anything wrong.

Unless the current way has changed ? (I haven't really followed the
extra gear mailing list the last few months) Maybe somebody else can
clarify this ?

Joris,

On 7/24/06, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi Joris, i'm writing this on behalf of Catalan l10n team but i am mostly sure
> that it applies to all translation teams.
>
> We were VERY surprised to see you removed our ktorrent translation.
>
> I guess that what you did is move manually all translations from trunk to
> stable, thus removing the file for teams that did not have a trunk version
> (like ours)
>
> That is bad, as leaving the old file would have resulted in a merging of
> existing translations with new ones, and some translations could have been
> reused, if you remove the file and we don't keep an eye on file movements
> like the one you did, we would have lost lots of translations that surely can
> be reused.
>
> So please next time don't erase files when doing a trunk->stable copy and
> there is no trunk file and there is a stable one ;-)
>
> Also i'm not completely sure it is a good idea to overwrite stable files with
> trunk ones without asking team leaders or kde-i18n-doc because maybe stable
> ones are more translated that trunk ones, but that is another question.
>
> BTW, thansk for working on ktorrent!
>
> Albert
>