Re: FW: two patches

[John Mandereau]

Carl D. Sorensen a écrit :
> Mark,
>
> I appreciate your good work on these patches.
>   

So do I :-)


> 2) I'm not sure how to handle patches to translated documents.  I know that
> the translations need to follow a particular commit of the english docs.  If
> the change in the translated documents reflects a change in the english
> documents, the committish needs to change in the source file, I think.  I'm
> not sure exactly how to evaluate the changes you've proposed, and what the
> proper means of handling them is.  Translators, please speak up here.  Note
> that if we had separate commits for each language, it would be easier for a
> translator to review.
>   

There is a specific policy on po/ (not Documentation/po), explained in 
either the CG or po/README: lilypond.pot may be updated only through 
"make po-replace", which is obvisouly not the case in this patch, as the 
POT creation date isn't changed, and every change to *.po files must 
come from the Free Translation Project unless I give explicit permission 
to do otherwise (which I should only do on advice from the FTP team). In 
short, I don't accept changes to files in po/ in this patch.

Typos in translated Texinfo documentation may be applied without asking 
prior permission. I may have a look at simplifying the committishes 
update in case the translation was previsouly up to date, but there is 
much more urgent and important work to do first.


> 3) When I look at the tranlsated patches, I get funny characters in my
> output.  I'm not sure if my email program has mangled things or not.  Of
> course, I could build the docs and see, but I don't read german, so I'd have
> no idea if it were correct or not.
The encoding of the patch looks correct.


> I'd like to recommend that patches to translated documents be approved by
> the primary translator for that language.  Does this seem reasonable?
>   

This is generally reasonable, but this is excessive for simple typos.

Best,
John