Re: About Mandriva page

kolmapäev, 28. oktoober 2009 21:07:24 kirjutas Mario Blättermann:
> Am Mittwoch, den 28.10.2009, 20:33 +0200 schrieb Marek Laane:
> > Well, status pages are not the problem - the real problem I was worried
> > was that template (POT) in svn was updated but not translation files
> > (PO). Same for doc_isos which I also resolved with manual merge but what
> > should be done automatically on the server.
> 
> To update the po file should be your job. It's simple enough: Just type
> »intltool-update et« to get an updated file. But imagine, the template
> contains any errors, which could damage the po file. If all these
> updates would made automatically in SVN, some valid files could become
> unusable, if nobody take notice of it. In my mind, all changes in SVN
> should be made manually. Well, I should mention an exception: Due to the
> difficulty to get the current translatable strings of the rpm-summary*
> modules, these files can be updated automatically, assuming the person
> who does such a global update is careful and validates the result.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mario
> 

Well, I strongly disagree. Integrity of template and proper updating 
translation files with new/modified entries should be provider (in the case, 
Mandriva's) responsibility. One of reason is that otherwise translator has 
almost no way to know something is really changed.

Marek Laane
Estonian translator