[libreoffice-projects] Re: Workflow between dev, UX and l10n teams

[jonathon]

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On 27/01/15 18:06, Rimas Kudelis wrote:
> In general, I think it's kind of sloppy (sorry, can't think of a right
> word right now) to leave miss-worded strings in the source as they are,
> and fix them in a separate locale instead. 

The options are to either:
* Accept whatever language_locality that the developer inputs. Teams can
start translation at that point in time;
* Reject all submissions to the code base that are not in
SpecificLanguage_SpecificLocality _and_ conform to style manual criteria;
* Prohibit all translation, until the translation team tasked with
SpecificLanguage_SpecificLocality _and_ conformance to style manual
criteria has completed that for each submission to the code base;
* Accept whatever language_locality the developer inputs, and then allow
one team to correct that, whilst allowing other teams to translate the
material, and then re-translate it, once the errors have been corrected
in the source. This is the current workflow;

> (e.g. a dozen or two), I really don't think they deserve all this fuss.

The problem is that in every release, there is something that is found
at the last minute, that requires a change, or correction in en_US, but
may not need to be corrected in any other language, or for any other
locality. However, by making the correction in the source, every other
team has to verify that "Yes, that change had absolutely no effect on
anything we did".

jonathon

  * English - detected
  * English

  * English

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