Comment 5 for bug 357369

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:09 AM, Matthew East <email address hidden>wrote:

> That change constitutes a string change. It's *very* unorthodox to do
> such a string change just a few days before final release, in particular
> without giving the translators a change to see and translate the new
> string.
>
> I suppose that if translations are not going to be shipped with xubuntu-
> docs for Jaunty then the translators could be notified of the change
> after the release and translations could then be updated; but it's still
> very odd to make a change like this in the release week.
>

I guess Cody was receiving a good deal of noise about this not being fixed
in Jaunty, so that's the main reason why I pushed this change up to the
Jaunty branch. With all of the other bugs that I've been getting in the past
week, I've just been thanking the person who reported the bug, and letting
them know it would be fixed in the 9.10 release.

Also, with this particular bug report (which came from a translator), the
person indicated that they had already made the correction in their
translated string. Of course, not all translators may have made such an
adjustment.

In short, though, I wouldn't have pushed this up to Jaunty without the
initial prompting, and without feeling that not fixing the bug could lead to
a fair amount of confusion for users.

Next time I'll bring something like this up on the mailing list before
pushing it through, at such a point in time though. If you or anyone else
feels that the change should be reverted at this point (or at least not
pushed out with the shipped release), let me know.

Thanks, all.

Jim