Re: Stable ab/i18n branch

["Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 05:28, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
>> No benefit? The benefit is that the program they previously either
>> didn't understand or understood poorly is now talking to them in their
>> native language. That's a pretty big benefit.
>
> And for the languages that are not translated yet?

Yeah those would get odd regressions with no benefit, unfortunately.

> Don't get me wrong --- I'm only trying to give a sense of what it is
> like for a user to experience a regression.  It is generally little
> solace that someone else's use case is supported better.

Understood. And it's certainly good that these things are pointed out.

>>       So unless someone else is interested in helping audit all that
>> code, providing a printf() fallback on glibc etc. it'll block the i18n
>> series.
>
> Oh, I never meant to say that this should be a blocker.  Only that
> there really are costs and benefits to weigh.
>
> Much more important than the known bugs are the unknown bugs ---
> you've heard this before, I think.  The way to get rid of unknown bugs
> (aside from inspecting code) is to get users.
>
> For example, if Gerrit doesn't mind, I would like to apply your
> patches to experimental once the version being staged for squeeze
> clears from there.

That would be great. Let me know if I can help with that in some way.