Re: menu-policy update process
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 12:49:32PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 02:48:15PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:37:40AM -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
> > > I do note that following menu policy seems to be a request -- it says
> > > "please", rather than "should" or "must". That pleases me.
>
> > Unregistered menu section will not be translated
>
> The translations should be based on what we actually have, not on what
> we once thought we might have. Yeah, ok, this is an issue, but I
> think it's one we should try to solve, rather than using it as an
> excuse for overly rigid policies.
Agreed. We mainly need developers to registers theirs menu sections.
> For that matter, what about menu hints? Do we have translations for
> all of the various hints that different packages use?
Menu hints are not displayed to the user, only used to compute the menu
layout.
> Anyway, that's enough for one post. I'll discuss the Benevolent
> Dictator idea later, once I've had more coffee and time to think.
I would be grateful if you relieve me of the task of asking for
new translation of menu sections and checking compliance of menu
entries to the Debian menu subpolicy.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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