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List:       opensuse-translation
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-translation] A problem with the translated release notes.
From:       "Carlos E. R." <carlos.e.r () opensuse ! org>
Date:       2013-11-20 10:43:20
Message-ID: 528C9248.30004 () opensuse ! org
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On 2013-11-20 10:36, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
> "Carlos E. R." <carlos.e.r@opensuse.org> writes:
> 
>> The version number on the release notes is automatically
>> inserted. The problem is that if the translation is in fact
>> older, the version number is current, but the actual text is old:
>> they do not match.
>> 
>> Of course, the parts that do not match show in English.
> 
> Yes, but because the entire contents is actually available (even
> if untranslated), I think it is ok that we globally adjust date and
> version number.  I'm not sure whether we still warn in the
> localized release notes that translations might be incomplete.

Mmmm... perhaps...

> 
>> I would propose that the number, or the date, be written by the
>> translator on the text, so that the numbers correspond to what is
>> really translated.
>> 
>> Or the insertion logic be corrected so that the proper, old,
>> number shows.
>> 
>> The way it is, the user is misled by reading obsolete notes and
>> thinking they are current.
> 
> But they are current (as you said above), and these "mixed"
> translations are by no means obsolete.  And, maybe most important,
> the reader does not know what such dates or version numbers mean.

The date of publication or last update, they would assume.

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Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.
		(from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar)
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