Re: [PATCH] rebase: make warning less passive aggressive
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Jean-Noël AVILA <jn.avila@free.fr>
- Date
- Feb 21, 2024, 22:05 UTC
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- <2324063.ElGaqSPkdT@cayenne>
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- <20240221183018.GB9696@kitsune.suse.cz>
On Wednesday, 21 February 2024 19:30:18 CET Michal Suchánek wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 10:02:04AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes: > > > > > Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de> writes: > > > > > >> Or if it does touch the po files it could as well update the > > >> translations. > > >> > > >> There are changes that can be trivially translated without any
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> > >> of the target language. > > > > > > You need to know the target language before deciding it is OK and > > > sufficient to just remove ̉¿? from around a sentence to make it from > > > a question to a statement of a fact. You may know enough, but > > > reviewers may not be. In addition, it would allow bypassing the > > > language teams, which is the most serious problem I see in such an > > > attitude. > > > > Oops, "attitude" -> "approach". > > That's certainly true that even if you know how to remove a question > mark you may not find a reviewer who knows how to remove one. > > Nonetheless, if you do find both a patch author and a reviewer that know > how to remove a question mark what is the problem with not involving > several language teams to remove a question mark? > > Thanks > > Michal > >
As a translator, I'm less bothered by editing a sentence to remove a question mark (maybe enforcing a language style and reformulating the sentence by the way), than by translating again and again similar sentences.
Thanks
JN