Re: Replication references

On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 18:10 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 18:03, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 23:45, Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> >>> On 20 June 2011 21:40, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> >>>> Hi!
> >>>>
> >>>> I know we've  had some discussions around what to do with the Slony
> >>>> support.. But it's there now, and IIRC the deal was we keep it.
> >>>
> >>> That was the deal. FWIW, I consider our Slony support to be less than
> >>> useless, in that it is basically a GUI analogue to writing a long
> >>> Slonik script full of apparently redundant entries.
> >>>
> >>>> I would, however, suggest that we rename it to actually be "slony
> >>>> replication" rather than "replication". Or "Use slony" rather than
> >>>> "Use replication". Calling it "replication" without qualifying it
> >>>> causes confusion to many users (came across it with a client just
> >>>> today, and it's not the first time).
> >>>>
> >>>> I realize we're fairly close to release - is this doable for 1.14, or
> >>>> will that fsck things up for translators?
> >>>
> >>> +1
> >>>
> >>> It isn't that hard to translate a few strings into all supported
> >>> languages. If a translator isn't available to translate those few
> >>> strings (and they'd have to not be answering any e-mail for that to be
> >>> the case, and it will take them less than 5 minutes), that's likely to
> >>> be in a language that isn't so widely spoken  - it certainly won't be
> >>> French or German. I'd be willing to live with a poor machine
> >>> translation for a little while for those languages. If someone
> >>> complains, the complaint is likely to be all we need to fix the
> >>> problem ourselves.
> >>>
> >>
> >> So, something like this. I went with calling the field inthe dialogs
> >> "Use Slony" rather than "Use Slony replication", simply because the
> >> second option is very long - much much longer than anything else
> >> there, leading to a lot of wasted space.
> >>
> >> Comments?
> >
> > It should be "Slony Replication" for the menu and the collection
> > factory name, not "Slony replication". Otherwise it seems OK.
>
> Agreed. Actually I thought I had fixed that already :D
>
>
> > I would like to hear from Guillaume before breaking the translations though.
>
> Yeah, I was planning to wait for his comment before committing anything.
>

No problem with me. We have no updates to the translation yet, so that's
not an issue.


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