Annoucement: New translation status page is installed

[Bernd Groh]

Miloslav Trmac schrieb:

>On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 07:38:32PM +1000, Bernd Groh wrote:
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>>If you have only 2 translators, then it may not be a problem, it gets 
>>more difficult with 10. And if you have 20+ translators to a language, 
>>peer-to-peer communication has proven not to be ideal. In this way, 
>>everyone is informed of who is doing what. You only have to [Take] a 
>>module once, and then it belongs to you until the translation is 
>>finished, or you [Release] it. We believed this mechanism to be 
>>extremely helpful.
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>On the other hand it is just annoying if there is only one or two
>translators or if you want to commit a one-liner fix to a module "owned"
>by someone else.
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For the case there's only one or two translators, we can potentially, if 
desired, exclude these languages from the process. For the case that you 
simply want to commit a one-liner to a module "owned" by someone else, I 
strongly disagree. Why? Because if someone is taking a module, that 
person is starting to translate it (or so it should be). If you fix a 
one-liner while another person is translating the file, you might just 
introduce a conflict.


>Having the mechanism available is definitely useful but maybe it
>would be easier for everybody not to enforce it for CVS access.
>	Mirek
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The reason we introduced it, is because we had a lot of people asking 
for exactly such mechanism. But I'm happy to discuss the issue, and am 
not set either way. I simply felt it was the right thing to do. I could 
have been wrong.

Bernd

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