Re: Downgrade of bacula template or error in SMITH process?

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

On Wed February 13 2008 11:18:24 am Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Hello John,
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:10:31AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> > On Wed February 13 2008 10:43:16 am Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > It appears that on Jan 29, I applied the new PO file as given in
> > #462981.  I have confirmed that the file in the source tree is identical
> > to the file given there.
> >
> > I have not made any template changes in quite a long time, and have not
> > run debconf-updatepo in quite a long time, either.
> >
> > I guess I am confused what the problem is; I just copied the file in
> > #462981 into place.
>
> Ah, I understand now: In #462210 (which is still in progress, due on
> Sunday) you did not follow the request "Please avoid uploading a
> package with fixed or changed debconf templates and/or translation
> updates in the meantime."

This is all highly confusing.  I have not changed the debconf templates, but 
meanwhile people are sending me bugs asking me to please apply these 
translation updates.  I want to do the right thing and get the translations 
in, play nice with everyone, and fix & close bugs!  Developer X says please 
don't do foo, while developers A, B, C, and D say please do foo.  

Technically as the maintainer, I can fix the bugs now if I want to.  But I 
don't want to make life hard for people.  #462981 asked me to "place this 
file in debian/po/ as de.po for your next upload", not to wait for #462210.  
I am not a member if an l10n/i18n team  and don't really know how to judge 
whose requests I should listen to, and in fact I don't know if honoring one 
request will inconvenience lots of other people.

How do I know which requests to update translations should be done, which 
shouldn't, and should I apply all these that are pouring in now after some 
fixed event, or should I just close them out of hand?

> So I think the best is to simply wait until #462210 is solved and then
> check the status of the German translation.

How will I check the status, and how will I know what is the Right Thing to 
do?

Thanks for your help.

-- John