[patch/rfc] More NEWS for 6.3

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 09:42:45 -0500
> From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> 
> > Fine with me, although I suggest to lose the i18n part, since without
> > a message catalog, we cannot say we support it.
> 
> (well I do have a "strine" catalogue if you're interested :-)
> I've checked it in (6.3 and mainline).

Why did you say "strine"?  By ``a catalog'' I meant the gdb.pot file,
which is in English, not in any specific language (yes, I know what
"strine" is).

Anyway, it's not enough to have a catalog, nor a translation for a
specific language.  We need to register the "gdb" domain with the
Translation Project and then submit gdb.pot to the TP robot, so that
translators could work on producing the XX.po files.  We should also
wait for a while after gdb.pot becomes available from the TP web
pages, to give translators time to translate, and finally we should
download the XX.po files and include them with the release tarball.
Then, and only then, we could say in good faith that GDB supports
i18n.

In case you didn't know, the details of this are spelled out here:

  http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/HTML/maintainers.html