Automerge .po files with .pot files !

[Magnus Larsson]

I like it the way it is.

90MB is not much to download these days unless you use modem.
Plus CVS compresses the data before it sends it. And you only need to
download it once,
so when a pot file gets updated you can manually pick to only update that
pot file.
I think most people download the ISO files to install Fedora anyway, and
those files are 700MB up to 3 GB.
Maybe we can have a poll on how many still use modems today...
I rather have consistent files than accomodate someone who is afraid of
downloading some extra data.

Suggestion: The Fedora translation status page should show the "official
number" (according to the potfile) of messages to be translated, and not
only how many messages have been translated in the each po file. Then people
can see if they are finished and if they need to update a pot, without even
downloading a single file...


On 9/14/06, A S Alam <aalam at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Ankitkumar Rameshchandra Patel ਨੇ ਲਿਖਿਆ:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to raise the issue of automatic merge of .po files again. I
> > have gone through the following threads. Please read them if you
> haven't.
> >
> >
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2006-August/msg00023.html
> > ( Agree )
> >
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2006-July/msg00032.html
> > ( Not Agree )
> >
> > Fedora translation repository is extracted from original fedora
> > applications' sources. All translators/localizers are provided access to
> > translation repository only, which is correct. Whenever developer
> > (package maintainer) make changes in the source code, s/he make the
> > changes in the .pot file respectively, but not .po files for all
> > languages. I agree that few developers modify .po files also along with
> > .pot which is good for translators/localizers. But what about those
> > packages in which only .pot file is updated and .po files are not, which
> > is not at all helpful.
> > agree, but that provide more freedom to people to merge their
> translation as they required, yes different Number of strings
> may be issue, for this,
> we can ask Developers to send mail to mailing list when
> POT files are updated by them.
>
>
> you know size of Specspo?
> [aalam at aalam specspo]$ du -h --max-depth=0
> 88M     .
>
> if it will automatic merge strings and it will be update all files for
> 70+ languages, (where few active languages), then Most Translators
> would not like to download Huge data on their machines without
> any reason and where bandwidth is limited, not hope for
> broadband for everywhere
>
> more suggestion are welcomed
>
>
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