suspected string freeze break

Asgeir Frimannsson asgeirf at redhat.com
Wed Sep 24 08:01:47 UTC 2008


----- "Asgeir Frimannsson" <asgeirf at redhat.com> wrote:
> ----- "Dimitris Glezos" <dimitris at glezos.com> wrote:
> 
> > 2008/9/24 Dimitris Glezos <dimitris at glezos.com>:
> > > 2008/9/24 Noriko Mizumoto <noriko at redhat.com>:
> > >> *system-config-firewall
> > >> POT-Creation-Date: 2008-09-19 17:10+0200
> > >
> > > I guess this creation-date info has been taken from Damned Lies.
> DL
> > > isn't reliable since POTs are created there often. Looking at the
> > VCS
> > > the developer *has* indeed updated the POT file but he hasn't
> > > introduced any new strings.
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/system-config-firewall.git?p=system-config-firewall.git;a=commitdiff;h=fa95156611dbb423a9d0c4c257cc0e235b04d0b7#patch57
> > 
> > Oops. My bad. Didn't look carefully enough. It does change some
> > strings:
> > 
> > > +msgid "Protocol Type:"
> > > +msgstr ""
> > 
> > Noriko, thanks for letting us know. I'll send an email to Thomas.
> 
> I had a look at this earlier as well, and (in defense of the
> developer) it seems to be only changes in the source code, not actual
> string changes. If translatable strings are moved around in the source
> code, the order of messages in the POT might also change, making the
> 'diff' hard to read. Ideally, we should perhaps ask developers not to
> commit regenerated POT files after string-freeze, unless they have got
> a +1 on a string-freeze break?

Well, I should have looked closer (or after some sleep as glezos just did), there is indeed some added strings there.

cheers,
asgeir




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