Re: Release Notes translations

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:31:14AM +1000, Asgeir Frimannsson wrote:
>  On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Dimitris Glezos
> <dimitris(a)glezos.com&gt; wrote:
>  > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Ruediger Landmann
>  > <r.landmann(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  >> Diego Búrigo Zacarão wrote:
>  >>>
>  >>> Can someone, please, tell me why all the Release Notes translations (PO
>  >>> files) were deleted?
>  >>
>  >> They haven't been deleted; the po files for the Fedora 10 Release Notes
> were
>  >> moved to a separate git branch as we prepare for Fedora 11. See here:
>  >>
> http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/docs/release-notes.git?p=docs/release-not...
>  >
>  > May I suggest a heads-up to fedora-trans-list before landing big
>  > changes. It's always a good idea. =)
>  >
>  > Also, note that I'm still waiting for a patch that adds support for
>  > Publican documents for Transifex. Is there a plan behind this change
>  > in vital Fedora documents that takes translators into consideration?
>  
>  As far as I understand publican, one of the major benefits of this
>  toolchain *is* translations. Hence, supporting Transifex on the
>  infrastructure side should be very easy. A simple recipe:
>  
>  1) In the toplevel 'Makefile' read the OTHER_LANGS variable to get a
>  list of target-languages (e.g. ja-JP gu-IN)
>  2) For each of these languages, there is a sub-directory (e.g.
>  ./ja-JP,/ ./gu-IN/) that reflects the exact directory-layout of the
>  ./pot/ directory (containing the POT templates).
>  3) Present this nicely with statistics in the Transifex UI and allow
>  submissions.
>  
>  So, getting info out of publican is easy. The tricky part is that
>  Transifex 0.5 took a 'minor shortcut' by designing the application (at
>  least the UI) around the concept of 'one PO file pr component'. There
>  seems to be some support for additional files pr language, but this is
>  not a 'simple patch' and requires cooperation from the core
>  development team. I'm happy to assist with publican support if we find
>  a solution for multiple files in general within Transifex.
>  
>  We have a Fedora L10N Infrastructure team meeting later today where I
>  will put this on the agenda. 
From what I understood, this was not the case in Transifex 0.5, and it
does have some abstract notion of "data sets" that can encompass more
than one PO file for a particular module.  In the same way, more than
one PO file for a particular collection can be parsed for statistics.

Am I correct about this?  I thought I read this in the L10n
Infrastructure team meeting notes too, and that the changes needed
were not extraordinary.

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