From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Keeping Subject: Re: [L10N] Kickoff of translation for Git 2.6.0 round 1 Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2015 14:21:48 +0100 Message-ID: <20150905132148.GC27660@serenity.lan> References: <2019620.IQg8023dli@cayenne> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jean-No=EBl?= AVILA , Alexander Shopov , Alex Henrie , Ralf Thielow , Marco Paolone , Marco Sousa , Dimitriy Ryazantcev , Peter Krefting , =?utf-8?B?VHLhuqduIE5n4buNYyBRdcOibg==?= , Junio C Hamano , Git List To: Jiang Xin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Sep 05 15:22:29 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 1ZYDQJ-0008JO-CW for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 15:22:27 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752401AbbIENWY convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Sep 2015 09:22:24 -0400 Received: from jackal.aluminati.org ([72.9.247.210]:59402 "EHLO jackal.aluminati.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751431AbbIENWW convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Sep 2015 09:22:22 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jackal.aluminati.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5720CDA5EA; Sat, 5 Sep 2015 14:22:21 +0100 (BST) X-Quarantine-ID: <0+DQgJVoD3KP> X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at serval.aluminati.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.001 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.001 tagged_above=-9999 required=6.31 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1, BAYES_40=-0.001] autolearn=no Received: from jackal.aluminati.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (jackal.aluminati.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id 0+DQgJVoD3KP; Sat, 5 Sep 2015 14:22:21 +0100 (BST) Received: from serenity.lan (banza.aluminati.org [10.0.7.182]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by jackal.aluminati.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 05F91CDA46B; Sat, 5 Sep 2015 14:21:50 +0100 (BST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 09:14:18PM +0800, Jiang Xin wrote: > 2015-09-05 18:02 GMT+08:00 Jean-No=C3=ABl AVILA : > > Le samedi 5 septembre 2015, 10:17:54 Jiang Xin a =C3=A9crit : > >> Hi, > >> > >> Git v2.6.0-rc0 has been released, and it's time to start new round= of git > >> l10n. This time there are 123 updated messages need to be translat= ed since > >> last update: > >> > >> l10n: git.pot: v2.6.0 round 1 (123 new, 41 removed) > >> > >> Generate po/git.pot from v2.6.0-rc0-24-gec371ff for git v2.6.0= l10n > >> round 1. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin > >> > >> You can get it from the usual place: > >> > >> https://github.com/git-l10n/git-po/ > >> > >> As how to update your XX.po and help to translate Git, please see > >> "Updating a XX.po file" and other sections in =E2=80=9Cpo/README" = file. > >> > >> -- > >> Jiang Xin > > > > > > Some new strings are not consistent with the actual set. > > > > For instance, in the "Could not ..." strings were all with capitals= , and some > > new ones are not. Last time, I remarked strings which were almost e= xactly the > > same (only difference was a final dot, if I remember). Some help st= rings were > > mixing different styles. >=20 > Before this update, "Could not" vs "could not" is 50:40, and now it's= 50:50. >=20 > $ grep 'Could not' po/git.pot | wc -l > 50 >=20 > $ grep 'could not' po/git.pot | wc -l > 50 Note that Documentation/CodingGuidelines has a section on error message= s which says: - Do not end error messages with a full stop. - Do not capitalize ("unable to open %s", not "Unable to open %s") - Say what the error is first ("cannot open %s", not "%s: cannot open"= )