[Chandler-dev] Re: Chandler.pot for 0.7.4

[Brian Kirsch]

Hi Heikki,
If you want to take 100% ownership of the Finnish translation  
including handling
all merging and dealing with any inconsistencies between the translation
and the branch that is fine with me.

I suspect that will not be the case for the majority of translators.


-Brian


On Jan 3, 2008, at 12:40 PM, Heikki Toivonen wrote:

> This was sent in private email to localizers, but we've decided to  
> keep
> l10n discussion on dev so here it is with Brian's permission,  
> including
> my response.
>
> Brian Kirsch wrote:
>> Hello,
>> The latest Chandler.pot has been generated for the 0.7.4 branch  
>> and is
>> now in SVN.
>>
>> I have gone through and merged the French, Swedish, Finnish, and  
>> German
>> po files and
>> checked them in to the localization SVN.
>>
>> Swedish: 9 strings to translate
>> Finnish: 12 strings to translate
>> German: 15 strings to translate and 1 fuzzy string
>> French: 15 strings to translate
>>
>> I wanted to take a second to discuss future process regarding  
>> localization.
>>
>> I believe it makes the most sense to wait to update the po files  
>> until a
>> branch has
>> been created. At that point, I will generate the new pot file and  
>> merge
>> the changes
>> with the existing translations for our localization team to update.
>
> This makes you the bottleneck in the process, when there does not  
> really
> need to be central processing. Sure, it can be a nice service for  
> those
> who do not wish to do so, but in general I don't like it for a few  
> reasons:
>
> 1) I prefer to update my translation from time to time, rather than
> doing everything at the last minute after branching. I might not have
> time for translation work during the 1 week or so between branching  
> and
> point release.
>
> 2) I think I would be a better judge of Finnish merge success compared
> to you, since I'm actually the person doing the translation. It is  
> very
> easy for me to see what the merge is going to do when I do the merge,
> but relatively difficult if someone else does it.
> (I think I had more reasons, but they escape me at the moment.)







>
>> I will send an email and then you guys can hack away at the files.
>>
>> If everyone is generating their own pot files and doing their own
>> merging it
>> can be error prone. Especially as the number of translations  
>> increase.
>>
>> Sound good?
>>
>> -Brian
>
> -- 
>   Heikki Toivonen
>
>
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