Re: Imminent release of 2.6.0

On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 19:02 +0100, Marc "Foddex" Oude Kotte wrote:
> Points 3 through 5 are obvious enough, but how do I
> A) check if a .po is correct?

msgfmt -c ... note that we incorrectly use the & char in our
translation, so that always issues an error which you can ignore for
now.

> B) determine if it is for STABLE or TRUNK?

STABLE and TRUNK have different strings. If the translator has been kind
enough, he has updated the header in the .po file stating which version
the translation applies to. If not, then you'll have to ask the
translator, or grep for strings you know exist only in stable or trunk.

> Once that's solved, I'll do the translation stuff from now on.

Marc

> Marc
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>
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> On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 18:59 +0100, J.M. Maurer wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 18:52 +0100, Marc "Foddex" Oude Kotte wrote:
> > > Is this is a mere matter of copying a single file in a translation
> > > directory somewhere, and committing it? If that's the case, I'd be happy
> > > to become the 'translation maintainer' for Abiword as it seems uwog is
> > > occupied enough with other Abiword-related matters.
> >
> > The general procedure is (for existing translations, new ones require
> > code changes):
> >
> > - Check that the .po is correct
> > - Determine if it is for STABLE or TRUNK
> > - Copy the .po file to $srcdir/po
> > - run ./ui-backport nl_NL (or whatever the lang code is)
> > - Commit the po file and the generated .strings file
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Marc
> >
> >
> > > Marc
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 17:27 +0100, J.M. Maurer wrote:
> > > > > The thing is, while these PO files are waiting in the queue, other
> > > > > people might notice that the translations in SVN are incomplete,
> > > > > grab the latest PO file, and do the same work again -- all for
> > > > > nothing. This may not have happened yet, but... it is painful when
> > > > > it does. So for the past weeks you have had six, seven translators
> > > > > hopping on their chairs, muttering at their screens: "Come on!
> > > > > Come on! Put it in!"
> > > > >
> > > > > In short: submitted PO files should, in my opinion, be merged to SVN
> > > > > as soon as possible after their arrival.
> > > >
> > > > I totally agree. I'd appreciate if some "translation maintainer" would
> > > > show up to handle the task in the future, so we can guarantee timely
> > > > commits.
> > > >
> > > > Marc
> > > >
> > >
> >
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Received on Fri Mar 14 19:54:43 2008