2009/10/30 Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org:
actually most Indian developers add i18n later, very few i18n their code by default. When 'bolting' i18n into their code, errors creep in which are only noticed by the translator. Once the coders get into the habit, then these
FWIW, i18n was added into Everybuddy about 3 years after it was first developed and Ayttm inherited that code. The code then moved from developer to developer, not all of whom understand everything (or anything) about i18n. For the most part the project has always had 1-1.5 developers working on it unlike some larger projects that have 6-8 full time developers and tens of part time contributors. Given this, a manual review has always been impossible. One just takes what one gets and hopes someone sends in a patch or explains the problems clearly.