transifex committing wrong translations to elfutils

[Petr Machata]

Hi,

I don't know who's the culprit, but for some reason we are getting 
translations of wrong project in elfutils.  In particular, Spanish and 
Italian were thus damages in commits [1] and [2], respectively.  The 
string committed don't belong to elfutils, but to two different projects.

I sent messages to respective localization teams, but perhaps the tool 
that the translators use could do some sort of validity checking.  E.g. 
comparing the strings that should be committed to po/*.pot, and issue a 
warning, or outright deny the commit if "suspicious amount" of strings 
changes (that is original strings, not localized ones)?  I would like to 
state that I have only a very vague idea how the whole localization 
process works, so this proposal may not in fact be possible.

Hmm, should I file a ticket about this?  If yes, where?

Please be sure to CC me if replying, I'm not a member of the list.

Thanks,
PM

[1] http://tinyurl.com/mhtlew SHA1 5658eef4d3
[2] http://tinyurl.com/llfzk8 SHA1 589b3d302f

[Petr Machata]

07.09.2009 21:45, Petr Machata wrote:
> Please be sure to CC me if replying, I'm not a member of the list.

Wrong, I am.  The list made me subscribe before I could post.

PM

[Akira TAGOH]

We have another list for translators. it would be better
asking there... forwarding..
> > > > > On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:45:44 +0200,
> > > > > "PM" == Petr Machata  wrote:

PM> Hi,
PM> I don't know who's the culprit, but for some reason we are
PM> getting translations of wrong project in elfutils.  In
PM> particular, Spanish and Italian were thus damages in commits
PM> [1] and [2], respectively.  The string committed don't
PM> belong to elfutils, but to two different projects.

PM> I sent messages to respective localization teams, but
PM> perhaps the tool that the translators use could do some sort
PM> of validity checking.  E.g. comparing the strings that
PM> should be committed to po/*.pot, and issue a warning, or
PM> outright deny the commit if "suspicious amount" of strings
PM> changes (that is original strings, not localized ones)?  I
PM> would like to state that I have only a very vague idea how
PM> the whole localization process works, so this proposal may
PM> not in fact be possible.

PM> Hmm, should I file a ticket about this?  If yes, where?

PM> Please be sure to CC me if replying, I'm not a member of the
PM> list.

PM> Thanks,
PM> PM

PM> [1] http://tinyurl.com/mhtlew SHA1 5658eef4d3
PM> [2] http://tinyurl.com/llfzk8 SHA1 589b3d302f

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[Noriko Mizumoto]

<snip>
> PM> Hi,
> PM> I don't know who's the culprit, but for some reason we are
> PM> getting translations of wrong project in elfutils.  In
> PM> particular, Spanish and Italian were thus damages in commits
> PM> [1] and [2], respectively.  The string committed don't
> PM> belong to elfutils, but to two different projects.

Thank you for reporting this!
For Spanish, it seems that the wrong file accidentally was submitted, 
sorry. Now this translator tried to submit the correct file but  it failed.

Here is the output:
[noriko@noriko elfutils]$ msgfmt -c es.po
es.po:597: format specifications in 'msgid' and 'msgstr' for argument 1 
are not the same

This points the following string:
msgid: '%' is only meaningful with the 'x' option
msgstr: '%' es sólo significativo con la opción 'x'

Argument 1 here seems incomplete and understood as **'%' i** is the 
argument. In Spanish it will be  **'%' e** thus it gives syntax error.  
If this argument is changed to '%c' or something, it would work?
There are four errors in total, at 597, 1784, 3933 and 3938.

thanks
noriko