[gatein-dev] Syncing Changes in Resource Bundles

Hi *, As far as I know there are no explicit rules for situations like (1) New key added in the master (en) resource bundle (RB). (2) English text changed for some key. I can think of two solutions: (a) The "void" solution: * When adding to en RB file, do not add anything to other locale's RB files (except for those which you can reliably translate yourself) * When changing a key in en, remove the associated key-value pairs from all other RBs (except for those which you can reliably translate yourself) (b) The "use en" solution: * When adding to en RB file, add the very same English value-pair to all other RB files (except for those which you can reliably translate yourself) * When changing a key in en, replace all values in the RBs that you cannot translate yourself with the final English value you just have changed. I hope I explained (a) and (b) clearly enough. Pros and Cons: (a) * Less work when adding keys * Perhaps less error prone (delete the whole key-val is simpler than replace) * Probably more suitable to find out automatically (QA!) which keys in which RBs need to be (re-)translated (b) * Easier for translators to see which keys need to be translated without needing to look into source language file. I tend to prefer (a). Please comment! Thanks, Peter