Hello, I prefer (a) as well. Lucas ----- Mensaje original ----- > De: "Peter Palaga" <ppalaga(a)redhat.com&gt; > Para: "gatein-dev" <gatein-dev(a)lists.jboss.org&gt; > Enviados: Viernes, 17 de Enero 2014 21:10:41 > Asunto: [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 > > _______________________________________________ > gatein-dev mailing list > gatein-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/gatein-dev > _______________________________________________ gatein-dev mailing list gatein-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/gatein-dev