Re: Debian Debconf Translation proposal ( again )
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 09:45:30AM +0100, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 23:22:56 +0000
> Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:05:31AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 10:31:26PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > > And I've often picked up translators making small technical
> > > > mistakes, such as .po file header entries or encodings, that
> > > > didn't require me to know anything about the language.
> > >
> > > These errors are normally detected at build time (i.e. gettext tools
> > > print error messages).
> >
> > I didn't think they printed error messages about people failing to
> > fill in the Last-Translator: and Language-Team: fields, for instance,
> > do they?
>
> And you as maintainer are the only one who can do such a thing, wright;)
Not at all, but it seems other people don't.
Anyway, I'm not saying other people shouldn't review translations. The
people arguing for bypassing the maintainer are the people arguing for
less review of translations, not me.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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