Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Really 2,609 new strings?

Hi,

Le 10/06/2026 à 10:01, Adolfo Jayme Barrientos a écrit :
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2026 at 12:24 PM Neil Roberts <nroberts@libreoffice.org>
> wrote:
>
> > It looks like the patch below has changed the context of a whole bunch
> > of strings so Weblate thinks they are new:
> >
> >
> > https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/114bc67a2d2f1b9f84f68a3f3d1a93077ef4e369%5E
> > !
> >
> > Yikes!
> >
> > Hopefully there’s a way to get the old translations back.
>
> Christian has done some magic in the past to recover translations in cases
> like patch reverts, and he has automated changes like copyright-year
> updates in a way that needs no translator involvement (thanks for that!
> Some of us try to maintain more than one language in Weblate so this is
> hugely appreciated…).

Yes, let's ask Christian first if there is a possibility in the backend 
for all of us.
> It would be good to know what steps need to be performed (perhaps
> documented in the wiki) so that this knowledge isn’t siloed away and
> hopefully other contributors can help in this kinds of situations that
> suddenly put a huge workload on a few shoulders. I imagine that could even
> help unblock long-stalled minor typographic upgrades that haven’t been done
> because they would trigger retranslations.

I think it's possible via the Automatic translation under Operations, 
the only thing I wonder is why translation memory is not an option for 
the source of the automated translation.
And yes, documenting the steps is a good idea.
> By the way, it’s unfortunate that this extraordinary situation had to
> happen while TDF is losing a sysadmin…

I don't see the connection, Guilhem is leaving in December, that let us 
some time to solve the translation situation :)

Cheers
Sophie

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