String freeze and string corrections

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Thu Nov 21 14:12:53 EST 2013


Hi Christian,

Thank you for your feedback. Based on this, I have committed the two patches. (Both 
typo's were introduced by me btw *blushing*).

Geert

On Thursday 21 November 2013 10:09:24 Christian Stimming wrote:
> Hi Geert,
> 
> the formal set of rules from 2.4 times are still valid:
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/String_Freeze
> 
> However, as we've just entered string freeze mode, I think we should
> still be open for typo corrections. Translators will have to cope with
> approx. 1000 changed or new strings, so still changing a few of them
> doesn't really get anyone into trouble. In Aurimas's case, those
> corrections concern some strings that are only seldomly visible.
> Because of this, I'd suggest to accept his typo corrections right now
> so that we don't have to do any bookkeeping on them.
> 
> This would be different if we talk about changes that will be visible
> for any user right on start up, such as typos in the very main window.
> Those should probably be delayed until 2.6.0 is out the door. But for
> almost invisible strings, I'd say just do the corrections right now.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Christian
> 
> Zitat von Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be>:
> > It's been a while since the previous string freeze, so I'm a
> > bit rusty...
> > 
> > Can someone remind me again how we handle string
> > corrections that appear during string freeze ? Like the
> > two patches Aurimas has posted today ?
> > 
> > Are these authorized exceptions to the string freeze ?
> > 
> > Geert
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