On 2/23/18 10:48, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 10:41 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> writes:
>>> Something that isn't clear to me is, for a language that didn't meet
>>> 80% translation for a component, if it does reach 80% after the major
>>> version release, does it then get shipped in a minor release, or is
>>> out of that version completely until the next major version?
>>
>> No, it'll be added to the next minor release as soon as it reaches
>> 80%. That's happened routinely in the past. I have no idea how
>> automated that policy is -- you could ask Peter E. -- but a trawl
>> through the commit logs shows .po files getting added in minor
>> releases from time to time.
>
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/NLS#Minimum_Translation implies the
> opposite, because it refers to inclusion "in a PostgreSQL major
> release".
That section is meant to say, if a translation ships in 10.0 with 81%
but then drops to 79% because some backpatching changes strings, we
won't drop it in 10.2.
In the opposite case, it would be added to a minor release.
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