[zanata-users] po / pot files with multiple upstream translater servers

[Patrick Huang]

Hi Bryan,

AFAIK po file doesn't support timestamp on messages. I am not sure what upstream translation server you are referring to. I can only talk about two Zanata servers.

If one message has Approved/Translated translation on both server, there is no way to tell which one should it take. Or will it matter in this case? Can timestamp be the judgement criteria? If translation on both servers are saved as Fuzzy, then there is a workaround.
Here is what I can think of at the moment. It assumes two upstream server are both Zanata. Let's say server A and B.
Pick server A as the main working server for you.
Set up one project with two version in it. Let's say they are called "master" and "master on server B".
Ask translators working on server A to contribute in "master" version only. Leave "master on server B" unchanged.
Ask translators working on server B to contribute as normal. 
Pull translation from server B into your local file system. (Note, this won't preserver translation creation time but once pushed it will have a time of the push time which is close enough hopefully)
Push translation to server A "master on server B" version. So that this version will contain all translation done on server B.
Go to server A version "master", run Copy Translation(CopyTran) from the side menu. 
In CopyTran options, select don't copy for all types of mismatch. 

Explained:
CopyTran will ensure copy in latest translation. If you pull translation from the other server frequent enough (i.e. every day) then it should most likely do what you want. I am not sure if this is what you are after. Let me know if I misunderstood your question. 

Regards,

Patrick Huang
Senior Software Engineer
Engineering - Internationalisation
Red Hat

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bryan Kearney" <bkearney at redhat.com>
> To: zanata-users at redhat.com
> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 11:17:32 PM
> Subject: [zanata-users] po / pot files with multiple upstream translater	servers
> 
> are there best practices for how to deal with two upstream translation
> servers? Ideally, timestamps on every message would ensure that new
> strings on the server are not overwritten, but the data does not seem to
> have that.
> 
> Is locking on service while the other is being used the only way foreward?
> 
> -- bk
> 
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