Re: About Mandriva page

neljapäev, 29. oktoober 2009 00:54:38 kirjutas Mario Blättermann:
> Am Donnerstag, den 29.10.2009, 00:41 +0200 schrieb Marek Laane:
> > 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".
> 
> Sorry, I've almost no experience with Mandriva translations. For now, I
> was only working on translating the rpm-summary-main into German.
> 
> As far as I understand it, Mandriva provides normally merged po files in
> the statistics, which contains the current changes in source code. And
> the Estonian file doesn't contain changes, which are available from the
> pot file. But does this mean, that these changes will be also applied in
> SVN? Or are the provided (merged) po files dummy files which doesn't
> affect the SVN content?
> 
> Cheers,
> Mario
> 

AFAIK statistics page is just a frontend and not very relevant to real 
translation, only reference tool (as statistics always is :.-) ). Real work 
happens in SVN (or git or cvs or whatever), anyway, be it Mandriva or GNOME or 
KDE or whatever.
Normally all works as it should be: some developer makes changes in the source 
code->changes are extracted and put into template (POT)->translation files 
(PO) are updated accordingly, introducing new untranslated strings, marking 
changed strings fuzzy etc.
But in the case the process was broken and last step, i.e synchronization of 
template and translation files didn't happen, whatever the reason was.

Marek Laane
Estonian translator