Re: [L10N] Kickoff of translation for Git 2.6.0 round 1

[Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>]

2015-09-05 21:21 GMT+08:00 John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>:
> On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 09:14:18PM +0800, Jiang Xin wrote:
>> 2015-09-05 18:02 GMT+08:00 Jean-Noël AVILA <jn.avila@free.fr>:
>> > Le samedi 5 septembre 2015, 10:17:54 Jiang Xin a écrit :
>> >> 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 translated 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 <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
>> >>
>> >> 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 “po/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 exactly the
>> > same (only difference was a final dot, if I remember). Some help strings were
>> > mixing different styles.
>>
>> Before this update, "Could not" vs "could not" is 50:40, and now it's 50:50.
>>
>>     $ grep 'Could not' po/git.pot  | wc -l
>>     50
>>
>>     $ grep 'could not' po/git.pot  | wc -l
>>     50
>
> Note that Documentation/CodingGuidelines has a section on error messages
> 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")

Wow, we know how to fix.