[libreoffice-l10n] Breaking News!... Help pages can be edited directly in gerrit.

[Martin Srebotnjak]

Hi, Sophia,

I do not see these glitches in LibreOffice help. Can you send me a
screenshot?

Thanks, m.

2018-04-08 11:35 GMT+02:00 Sophia Schröder <sophia.schroeder at libreoffice.org
>:

> Hi,
>
> it causes visual glitches, like comma faults, at least in the old help
> system.
>
> So yes, I think so.
>
> Assuming the most translation were done already correctly
> it is also an opportunity to review own translations.
>
> Otherwise there are just 2 clicks, no?
>
> And it is not a long where it may "disturb" translators.
> Once it is done, it is done. Except new strings of course.
>
> And there don't come in a big bunch and I am also testing in the moment,
> which are the best practices to get rid of some failures
> and to make our help system and files more consistent.
> I have no problems with abandoning my patches for good reasons.
>
> It is a learning process for me too.
>
> Am 07.04.2018 um 23:11 schrieb Martin Srebotnjak:
>
> Hi,
>
> just one example from Gerrit 4 hours ago:
> "vector graphics;converting bitmaps"
> was changed to:
> "vector graphics; converting bitmaps"
> See: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/52546/2/source/text/
> simpress/guide/vectorize.xhp
>
> Is that "missing space" an error? Not. What does this change cause? It
> causes 100+ translations of that string obsolete, fuzzy, untranslated, not
> shown in builds ... And 100+ localizers must again localize, check, edit
> this same string ...
>
> Is this kind of editing/"cleaning-up" of help really useful/desired? Not.
>
> Lp, m.
>
> 2018-04-07 22:01 GMT+02:00 Martin Srebotnjak <miles at filmsi.net>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> And now the Babilon tower is open to all ...
>>
>> For years I was asking for a kind of a review process for all new strings
>> in UI/help and for the editing process. So someone overlooks all the
>> changes going in and stops the ones that seem unfit (in langague or
>> technical sense), thus reducing the repetitive editing of same strings.
>>
>> Instead, now there is a possibility to edit everything even more
>> "easily", with even less thinking about it before it is done.
>>
>> So now we might see a surge in help changes that make many l10n projects
>> quite vulnerable, and most probably several edits of same strings in a row
>> (a documenter reminding oneself that another thing should be added or
>> changed or edited, after it is already featured in git).
>>
>> Hopefully, this function is limited to master, because if this is
>> available in "stable" versions, this will lead to havoc ...
>>
>> Lp, m.
>>
>
>
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>
> Sophia Schröder
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