Re: Publican 1.6.3 -- Important

[Chrisito]

Hey Ruediger,

I just want to say to you that I have not forgoten your translation
requirement. I keep it in my mind.

Kind regards
Christian Ponce

2010/5/15 Ruediger Landmann <r.landmann(a)redhat.com&gt;

>  Hi all --
>
>  Just a note that Publican 1.6.3 will be in the repos shortly. This is a
>  major bugfix release with fixes for around 20 issues including quite a
>  few that specifically impact localization:
>
>  580360 - Publican does not allow programlisting/screen in entry
>  581397 - Updating zero-length PO files causes Publican to create
>  corrupted PO files
>  581773 - a manual page reference should not break a paragraph for
>  translations / PO files
>  582255 - <indexterm> is not translatable when outside of <para>
>  582649 - Some translated strings are not used, problem with non-breaking
>  space?
>  582680 - <indexterm> should be standalone in a translation
>  583224 - <keyword> should be translatable
>
>  The net effect of these fixes is that Publican now presents some strings
>  to translators that it did not present before (such as <keyword>,
>  <indexterm>, and the contents of <screen> and <programlisting>), and
>  divides some strings in PO files differently from how it did before (for
>  example, not breaking English strings into three separate strings around
>  <refentrytitle>). These changes should make life easier for translators
>  in future, and allow them to produce more complete translations.
>
>  As we approach the final push towards Fedora 13, it's really important
>  that Docs team members keep the POT (and therefore PO) files stable for
>  translators -- we don't want to shift the goalposts.
>
>  Therefore, do NOT use Publican 1.6.3 to refresh POT files for documents
>  already in translation. If you do so, it is very likely that you will
>  break existing translations.
>
>  If you do need to update or change POT files for an existing document
>  (which at this stage should require permission from the Localization
>  Team anyway) make sure that you use Publican 1.6.2.
>
>  However, if you need to generate or refresh PO files for some reason
>  (for example, to add a new language for a document), it's fine to use
>  1.6.3: the changes in Publican only affect XML-to-POT, not POT-to-PO.
>
>  Cheers
>  Rudi
>
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