Re: [libreoffice-l10n] 4.3 translation

You are right. But since I'm already on 100% error free that allows me to
catch errors I make. Every release I catch about 10-20 new errors I
unintentionally make trough those.
Dana 3. 5. 2014. 05:48 osoba "Adolfo Jayme Barrientos" <fito@libreoffice.org>
napisala je:

> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 7:03 AM, Mihovil Stanic <mihovil.stanic@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > If I have to choose, keep old system where all dismissed errors are
> > transfered to new branch.
> > Why?
> >
> > 4.2 branch l10n became active in november 2013. That is almost 6 months
> to
> > date.
> > Whoever wanted to translate it 100% and clear all errors, already did
> that.
> > It's less damage to have same error re-appear in finished 4.2 with which
> > most translators will have minimum contact with, then in 4.3 where you
> need
> > to mark them all as NON error all over again.
> >
> > Please don't force us to do meaningless work.
> >
> > https://translations.documentfoundation.org/hr/libo41x_ui/
> > Here you can see what are those errors. 4.1 was 100% error free before
> 4.2
> > branch.
>
>
> To be honest, as a translator and Pootle user, I’ve never seen the
> benefit of removing all the error checks. Why? It’s super simple:
> Pootle is software and as such it can’t know whether its checks are
> correct and valid.
>
> Checks are automated, and do not affect the actual functioning of the
> PO files (well, except some “critical” ones), and in most cases are
> wrong. For example, for Spanish I’ve been replacing all the English
> quotation marks with French ones (« and »). Every time I do this for a
> string, a Pootle error check is triggered and added to it, warning me
> that the quotation marks do not match the English string. Of course,
> my change is intentional and the check is useless, so I ignore it.
>
> You should only work in “critical” tags and others that are
> meaniingful for your language, and the checks sent by Cloph, that
> actually AFFECT LibreOffice’s functioning. Don’t try to achieve an
> “error-clean” Pootle folder; it simply is not worth the effort. And
> the fact that Pootle doesn’t preserve its string checks’ state means
> (to me) that checks are just AN AID, a guideline for translators, and
> that’s it.
>
> Regards

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