Re: About Mandriva page

neljapäev, 29. oktoober 2009 00:17:24 kirjutas Mario Blättermann:
> Am Mittwoch, den 28.10.2009, 23:15 +0200 schrieb Marek Laane:
> >  I've to admit  I'm absolutely not familiar with "GNOME's way". But
> > anyway, how can translator know something is changed if translation file
> > is not touched? Does it mean you have to do double work to monitor both
> > template and translation file?
> > And as for statistics (or, as you say, "status pages"), neither Mandriva
> > nor KDE don't display any changes in template only in translation file
> > (well, provided there is translation file; if not, then, of course,
> > changes in templates are displayed).
> 
> The status tracker for GNOME works as follows:
> 
> 1. Any person with write access to the Git commits a changed file.
> 2. The status tracker is watching any files which are referenced either
> in POTFILES.in or in help/Makefile.am (for docs)
> 3. The changes will be merged into an existing translation from Git or
> into the template, if no translation exists for a certain language.
> 4. The result is displayed and downloadable as plain text.
> 5. Translators can edit the file, upload it for review and finally
> commit the new one.
> 
> All of these steps doesn't change the real content in Git, it just
> happens in a »scratchpad«. Due to the permanent watch to the source code
> changes, the status tracker can provide the merged po files immediately,
> and we don't have to think about: »Do we already have an up-to-date
> file, or don't we...?«. And it is impossible that your changed, but not
> yet committed file becomes too old. Even the uploaded files will be
> merged with the current pot template, if there any change was happened
> in the meantime in the repository.
> 
> Additionally, the uploaded files will be tested, whether they are in
> UTF-8 or contain any errors, e.g. not matching variables, such as %s in
> msgid and %d in msgstr, missing mnemonics etc.
> 
> Furtherly, it prevents people with SVN access from problems with old
> local copies, untracked changes etc. You do your work outside of the
> SVN. Once your file is ready to commit, just type »svn up«, drag the
> file into the folder, and »svn ci«. That's all.
> 
> Have a look at the environment [1], you'll see how it works.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mario
> 
> [1] http://l10n.gnome.org/languages/et/gnome-2-30/ui/
> 

It seems we had some misunderstanding. The system there seems to be roughly 
same as in Mandriva or KDE. The point I raised was that changes in source code 
which you could see in template (POT) were *NOT* merged in translation files 
(PO) and you had to make manually "msgfmt -U language.po template.pot".

Marek Laane
Estonian translator