webmin translations status

Hi there,

   I'm from Conectiva, now merged with Mandrake as Mandriva.
We starting using webmin in Conectiva Linux 10 (launched in
2004) and we developed some good scripts to deal with webmin
translations.

   Basically we convert webmin files to po and vice-versa,
with all its advantages (existing tools for translation
and merging). We were able to update webmin translation from
an old version to 1.220, with no pain, and reusing a lot
of strings, making the Mandriva 2006 webmin almost 100%
complete for Brazilian Portuguese.

   I've googled today about this, finding this list, the
call for quality and noticed po-webmin from skolelinux.
What's the status of po use for webmin translation?

   Personaly, I think webmin should change its tanslation
framework to gettext. If this is not possible, we should
really push use of this intermediate tools. I propose to
merge our scripts with skolelinux ones. What do you think?


Wanderlei Antonio Cavassin
Mandriva