Menu strings may be changed and not reflecting PO-files.

[naokiueda]

We are GRASS Japanese translation team. In March 2010, out team translate GRASS Po-files into Japanese almost 100%. Now, with latest version, many 'menu strings' are back to English. That means relationship via Po-files are lost. Possible reason is a change in original English string. Not only for Japanese, but also other localization using pofiles should me effected by this recent change.

[martinl]

What means 'many'? Yes, possibly some messages has been modified. Those message should be marked as 'fuzzy'. You need to correct them, it's not defect. Closing ticket as invalid.

Martin

[hamish]

... this sort of frustration is why many projects have a "strings freeze" once the RC cycle begins. For GRASS 6.4.1, .2, .3, .4 etc it should be quite stable though so as long as the stable branches are the focus of translation efforts everyone should be happy.

cheers, Hamish

[martinl]

Replying to hamish:

... this sort of frustration is why many projects have a "strings freeze" once the RC cycle begins.

"strings freeze" is fine for RC. The problem is that RC stage should not be story for 1 year and half ;-)

[hamish]

The problem is that RC stage should not be story for 1 year and half ;-)

... this one took so long because we wanted MS Windows to be an equal platform. We are finally near to that, but it took much longer than if we just going to release for UNIX, which was ready long ago. But if we hadn't done that the Windows release would still be a year away.

So you might say that that the problem is that we needed 4-5 low-level Windows devs a year+ ago, but that's a chicken and egg type bootstrapping problem to attract them before it's working solidly, all the while forcing them to exist in a unix enviro.

cheers, Hamish

[neteler]

With apologize I open it again - indeed the menustrings.py messages where deleted in an incorrect template update (performed in an uncompiled GRASS source code tree). All grasswxpy_*.po files have been restored in SVN (except for DE, IT, PL which will follow shortly).

The closing of the ticket as invalid was due to a misunderstanding of the problem. And it is unrelated to the length of the RC cycle but a technical problem.

Markus

[neteler]

All wxGUI menu strings should be back now in SVN, sorry for the temporary mess. The winGRASS snapshots in 1 day from now should contain again the translations. Closing ticket.