On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 05:28, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ãvar ArnfjÃrà 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. ÂIt 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. ÂOnly 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. ÂThe 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html