On Wednesday, 21 February 2024 19:30:18 CET Michal Suchánek wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 10:02:04AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@xxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > >> Or if it does touch the po files it could as well update the > > >> translations. > > >> > > >> There are changes that can be trivially translated without any knowledge > > >> of the target language. > > > > > > You need to know the target language before deciding it is OK and > > > sufficient to just remove ̉¿? from around a sentence to make it from > > > a question to a statement of a fact. You may know enough, but > > > reviewers may not be. In addition, it would allow bypassing the > > > language teams, which is the most serious problem I see in such an > > > attitude. > > > > Oops, "attitude" -> "approach". > > That's certainly true that even if you know how to remove a question > mark you may not find a reviewer who knows how to remove one. > > Nonetheless, if you do find both a patch author and a reviewer that know > how to remove a question mark what is the problem with not involving > several language teams to remove a question mark? > > Thanks > > Michal > > As a translator, I'm less bothered by editing a sentence to remove a question mark (maybe enforcing a language style and reformulating the sentence by the way), than by translating again and again similar sentences. Thanks JN
