[Kde-extra-gear] About ktorrent translations

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dimarts 25 Juliol 2006 19:42, Joris Guisson va escriure:
> 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.

Yes, removing files with translations is wrong. The only reason to remove 
a .po file is the fact that the program does not exist anymore.

Albert

>
> 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