On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Kévin Raymond <shaiton@fedoraproject.org> wrote:

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Nilamdyuti Goswami <ngoswami@redhat.com> wrote:
> To solve this issue, we have formed a Fedora SIG named "Source String
> Contextualizing Group" [1] aimed at
> providing concise yet meaningful description of the concerned source strings
> in the source code itself to ensure the correctness and quality in the
> resulting translations.

It is *just* about improving the source code?
There is already a Transifex feature which can help provide context
without having to edit the source code.

Having translation context comments together with the source code is beneficial for the same reason having API documentation together with the source code is beneficial: they don't get out of sync.

Especially note that merely the English string is not always a sufficient identifier of the context, unlike a function/method name in an API. An infamous case is the string "May" which may either be a month name or a verb (in a software that is splicing sentences), and there already was an application that used both. Attaching a context within the translation tool just wouldn't have worked.

Mirek