[RFC] Existing translations and .PO files

[Andrew Martynov]

Hello, Tommy!

Russian translation team use .PO file based method from the begining.

A1) We already have .PO files.
A2) none

Regards,
Andrew Martynov
Inventa

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 11:55:45AM -0600, Tommy Reynolds wrote:
> Hello, Translators!
> 
> (I've CC:'ed the F-D-L as well.)
> 
> I'm reworking the I18N support in the Fedora Documentation Project
> tools, such as the CVS.
> 
> Previously, each document has had a set of base DocBook XML files.
> As translations were produced, complete new sets of translated XML
> files were added to the CVS repository.
> 
> Now, we are moving to the more familiar process of archiving only the
> original document XML files and the .POT/.PO files needed to produce
> the translated XML files using the "xml2po" and "po2xml" tools.
> 
> The new make(1) infrastructure will be able to use the .PO files to
> create the translated XML files on-the-fly.  For example, the files
> "en/example-tutorial.xml" and "po/de.po" will be archived but the
> derived "de/example-tutorial.xml" file will NOT be archived but will
> be considered as a temporary file.
> 
> My question is this:
> 
> Some FDP documents already have translated versions in CVS.  Under
> the new process, these archived versions will be discarded in favor
> of the on-the-fly translation using .PO files.
> 
> Q1) Have you translators kept your .PO files that were used for these
>     translations?
> 
> Q2) If .PO files are not available, is there a way to derive the .PO
>     files from the translated files or must this be a manual process?
> 
> If you have another suggestion to dealing with this, don't be shy; I
> may not be asking the right questions.
> 
> Cheers
> 
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