Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2021, #06; Sat, 30)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 2, 2021, 20:18 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqy2g6fckg.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2102021652350.54@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> I'll give you a reason. We're not really strong on the inclusion front,
> and translations are one thing that we actually do right on that end.
> Removing even the scant testing of translated messages that we do have
> strikes me as the opposite of improving the situation.

If you are adding something that helps to encourage translation, that is totally a different story, and I thought that perhaps the rot13 stuff would be a good starting point for that.

But I do not think keeping the fixed "### GETTEXT POISIN ###" would contribute to that very much. Keeping a "framework" that does not help to encourage translation and pretending that we have something, and complaining about its removal, is the opposite of helping wider translation.