From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kevin Daudt Subject: Re: Improving code base readability Date: Sun, 3 May 2015 18:11:11 +0200 Message-ID: <20150503161111.GA28448@vps892.directvps.nl> References: <20150501185946.GV5467@google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jonathan Nieder , git@vger.kernel.org, Stefan Beller To: Alangi Derick X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun May 03 18:11:26 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YowUF-0004Vt-R5 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 03 May 2015 18:11:24 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750943AbbECQLP (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 May 2015 12:11:15 -0400 Received: from ikke.info ([178.21.113.177]:39847 "EHLO vps892.directvps.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750863AbbECQLN (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 May 2015 12:11:13 -0400 Received: by vps892.directvps.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C55651DCF6D; Sun, 3 May 2015 18:11:11 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 08:15:45AM +0100, Alangi Derick wrote: > I read the po/README and also the po/TEAMS and i can't find English > there as a language. So what should i do or is it that the english in > the error messages are not clear that i can work on? The idea is to find error messages in the code base that are not marked for translation. That is: error("Something is wrong"); should be: error(_("Something is wrong")); This way, these strings will be extracted for the teams for translation. There is no english because those messages are already in the code.