Re: Stable ab/i18n branch

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 15, 2010, 05:28 UTC
Message-ID: <20101015052810.GB21830@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim0a7J5L1dtZNYTG7strEhjitZein5CVQayZFRh@mail.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> No benefit? The benefit is that the program they previously either
> didn't understand or understood poorly is now talking to them in their
> native language. That's a pretty big benefit.

And for the languages that are not translated yet?

Don't get me wrong --- I'm only trying to give a sense of what it is like for a user to experience a regression. It is generally little solace that someone else's use case is supported better.

>       So unless someone else is interested in helping audit all that
> code, providing a printf() fallback on glibc etc. it'll block the i18n
> series.

Oh, I never meant to say that this should be a blocker. Only that there really are costs and benefits to weigh.

Much more important than the known bugs are the unknown bugs --- you've heard this before, I think. The way to get rid of unknown bugs (aside from inspecting code) is to get users.

For example, if Gerrit doesn't mind, I would like to apply your patches to experimental once the version being staged for squeeze clears from there.

Other interested people can attract users in other ways --- by providing documentation, tarballs, ...