Re: Switching from CVS to something else

[Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>]

NAGY Viktor wrote:
>>> Another option is to go to time-based checks: checkout the timestamp for 
>>> the
>>> original (English) commit and compare with the timestamp of the 
>>> translation's
>>> commit. If it's over N weeks warn if it is over M weeks complain.
>> From a translators POV this can be very annoying, especially if the 
>> changes are like (from memory):
>> -</li>
>> +<li/ >
>> Regards,
>> Andrei
>
> How about introducing a special tag in log messages for those changes which 
> don't make the translations obsolete, so the translation check can them 
> ignore. It can work both with revision-based and timestamp-based 
> comparison.

Requiring to manually add tags to log messages is error-prone and many
people will probably forget it until after they pressed enter and committed.
Not sure if this would really be helpful in the long term.

Regards,

	Joey

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