[MeeGo-il10n] IRC meeting Thursday 1400 UTC

[Auke Kok]

On 09/10/10 05:10, Michał Sawicz wrote:
> Dnia 2010-09-10, pią o godzinie 14:59 +0300, Dimitris Glezos pisze:
>> 2. How can we make sure (ideally, in an automatic way) that developers
>> respect the String Freeze? We can add support in Transifex to detect
>> this and email the right people.
>
> The problem is that TX can't detect changes to strings that translations
> were not updated with. I think we need some 'l10n-fixing' period after
> the first RC, maybe... So that we can see and test it out in real life
> that no strings were omitted.
>

this is a release engineering task and I can drive the right people to 
keep these restrictions on acceptance of changes, no translator should 
be directly worried about this.

I realize that there is uncertainty and people don't like seeing their 
changes lost, but the best bat that I can hit bad developers with over 
the head is a case of 
-you-lost-hundreds-of-translation-strings-because-of-this.

Auke