[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 0079 Update the pot file (translation source)

[Jérôme Fenal]

2012/9/17 Petr Viktorin <pviktori at redhat.com>

> On 09/14/2012 09:36 PM, Jérôme Fenal wrote:
>
>> 2012/9/14 Petr Viktorin <pviktori at redhat.com <mailto:pviktori at redhat.com
>> >>
>>
>
>      I pushed the pot manually.
>>     Since we have infrequent explicit string freezes I don't think it's
>>     necessary to configure automatic pot updates again.
>>
>>
>> Thanks Petr!
>>
>> Actually, having the strings updated on Transifex on a regular basis
>> makes it (IMHO) more manageable for translators to update the
>> translations even before a string freeze. Translating a dozen strings
>> per week is lighter than a mere 339 strings.
>>
>
> A possible problem with this approach is that the translators would see
> and translate messages that don't make it into the final version. Do you
> think a more even workload would be worth the occasional extra work?
>

Having some extra work from time to time is OK. Having a huge batch of
strings to translate on a deadline is uneasy. Especially with day job
ramping up... ;-)


> I would like to change our i18n workflow/infrastructure. I was planning to
> (re-)start discussing this after the 3.0 release rush is done. It should be
> possible to do what you suggest.
>

Cool, thanks.


>  I also don't know if pulls from Transifex or push from your side has an
>> effect of keeping memory (in suggestions) of past or close enough
>> strings from the past for small modifications.
>>
>
> Sadly, I don't know much about Transifex itself. Perhaps ask the team
> there, and request the feature if it's missing.
>

This item is not that important, more a wish.



>  Another comment/request, I don't know given my zero-level Python-fu:
>> would it be possible to break down the huge __doc__ strings in plugins
>> into smaller parts, as a small modification would impact a smaller
>> strings, easing maintenance instead of trying to track the one character
>> modification in a 2000 chars text.
>>
>> Does Python support concatenations of __doc___ strings?
>>
>
> That is be possible on the Python side. I'm not sure how Transifex (and
> other translation tools) would cope with text split between several
> messages -- sorting and filtering the messages could take things out of
> context.
>

I'm aware of this issue, translators for others languages may raise their
hands. I could also probe trans at fp.o on that matter, to reach all of them.
That will nevertheless make changes more atomic, and overall easier to
manage on the longer term. In the past, changes were just a matter of
adding one paragraph, or adding one more usage example. Or fixing a typo.
Which is way harder to spot when you have a 1000 chars strings tagged as
changed.

Regards,

J.
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