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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Please stop using stupid automated translation systems !
From:       Éric Bischoff <e.bischoff () noos ! fr>
Date:       2002-11-18 13:38:15
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Hi Gaute,

Le Monday 18 November 2002 12:37, Gaute Hvoslef Kvalnes a écrit:
> > I'd like to warn against web translation systems that override the files
> > that are in CVS.
> >
> > Some teams, like Afrikaans and Nynorsk, have started using this kind of
> > software that think they "own" the files, and that CVS is just a copy.
>
> For the nb, nn and se teams, this is caused by synchronising our work CVS
> with KDE's CVS. It should work just fine, except that in this case I seem
> to have left some outdated doc templates around. Thanks for noticing, I'll
> try to find out what went wrong.

Thank you very much.

Could you also please resurrect my latest work on your docs? It takes time and 
energy to help languages to start with documentation translation, and the 
effect of reverting my changes is really discouraging ;-).

> The only thing that's hard to keep track of is third party commits like the
> fix you did in the nn doc files. I'd appreciate to get notified of such
> things.

I do not think I can agree with that. I do not want to sound too rigid, but I 
think that the master CVS is the KDE one, not your local CVS.

I do not think it is fair to consider "scripty", myself, Thomas, Coolo, and 
Lauri as "third party" people. After all, we are all KDE contributors. 
Furthermore, I think it would really be counter-productive to have to take 
into account special precautions varying with each different team when 
committing. This is not what CVS is all about.

Of course I cannot speak on behalf of Lauri, Coolo or Thomas, but I think that 
if your synchronization software can't cope with commits from people who 
don't belong to the Norwegian team, then you should either fix it or drop it.

> I think there is a CCMAIL option you can put in the CVS log
> message?

You can subscribe to the CVS mailing lists. But I do almost all my commits in 
CVS_SILENT to avoid flooding KDE developers.

> BTW, I don't use the ai98ghk@stud.hib.no address anymore, is that still
> registered anywhere?

Yes, in kde-common/accounts.

> Please change it to gaute@verdsveven.com.

Can you please do it yourself?

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