Re: Locales of avelsieve plugin in squirrelmail locale repository

> In the past I was planning to use the squirrelmail locales repository
> to store the translations for avelsieve.

That's the current policy we decided on for the last few years.

> But in the meantime, I've decided to make avelsieve work also in
> standalone mode, or even adapt it to other environments in the future.

This makes things more difficult to figure out...

> This means that I should probably stay with the current situation,
> which is keeping my locales together with avelsieve and not duplicate
> this information elsewhere.
>
> I leave it up to you to decide what to do with the avelsieve
> translations that reside in squirrelmail locales repository. Personally
> I vote for them being deleted, so as not to keep duplicate information
> and not bother with keeping them in sync with my repository.

(from some offlist conversation...)

>>>> our policy has been that
>>>> translations should be handled by SM and not in the plugin.  So....
>>>> hmmmm, you are planning to build the plugin into a stand-alone tool?
>>>
>>> Avelsieve will become standalone; that means that locale will be
>>> maintained in one repository, and it makes sense to use avelsieve
>>> repository for that. So I don't see the need for putting them in
>>> squirrelmail locales.
>>
>> Well, it's just that this is the SM policy now for plugins.  If you
>> are maintaining the locales externally, then it seems best to me that
>> the SM team is aware of that and occasionally synchronizes our repo
>> with yours.  OTOH, I know that isn't the most efficient.
>
> Perhaps the SM policy should "officially" make an exception for such
> cases?

Maybe Fredrik or someone else has an opinion.

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