Request of clarification about software translation

[Francesco Tombolini]

While translating some software I saw that the chkconfig page 
(http://translate.fedoraproject.org/module/chkconfig) shows that it.po 
is translated at 98% (87/1/0), so I decided to fix this.

The "submit module" of transifex is not actually configured to accept 
contributions. So I think to work via cvs server, but the file contained 
in the cvs server (cvs.fedoraproject.org) is different from the file 
that I get from the web interface of the module.

This happens with other files too, like comps (web) that is different 
from comps from cvs.fedoraproject.org or from comps-po from 
i18n.fedoraproject.org.

How can I be sure of what to translate?

Thank-you

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[Lubomir Kundrak]

Hi,

On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 10:52 +0100, Francesco Tombolini wrote:
>  While translating some software I saw that the chkconfig page 
>  (http://translate.fedoraproject.org/module/chkconfig) shows that it.po 
>  is translated at 98% (87/1/0), so I decided to fix this.
>  
>  The "submit module" of transifex is not actually configured to accept 
>  contributions. So I think to work via cvs server, but the file contained 
>  in the cvs server (cvs.fedoraproject.org) is different from the file 
>  that I get from the web interface of the module.
>  
>  This happens with other files too, like comps (web) that is different 
>  from comps from cvs.fedoraproject.org or from comps-po from 
>  i18n.fedoraproject.org.
>  
>  How can I be sure of what to translate? 
When you regenerate the pot and po-s with "make", I believe they are
basically the same.

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[Dimitris Glezos]

On Jan 5, 2008 3:37 AM, Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 10:52 +0100, Francesco Tombolini wrote:
>  > While translating some software I saw that the chkconfig page
>  > (http://translate.fedoraproject.org/module/chkconfig) shows that it.po
>  > is translated at 98% (87/1/0), so I decided to fix this.
>  >
>  > The "submit module" of transifex is not actually configured to accept
>  > contributions. So I think to work via cvs server, but the file contained
>  > in the cvs server (cvs.fedoraproject.org) is different from the file
>  > that I get from the web interface of the module.
>  >
>  > This happens with other files too, like comps (web) that is different
>  > from comps from cvs.fedoraproject.org or from comps-po from
>  > i18n.fedoraproject.org.
>  >
>  > How can I be sure of what to translate?
>
>  When you regenerate the pot and po-s with "make", I believe they are
>  basically the same. 
Maybe it's because the web interface auto-generates the POT files for
those modules that support intltool, practially ignoring the current
POT file?

In any case, the web interface should always give a correct PO/POT
file for translation, which should be the same as if you taken the
source and run an `intltool-update <lang>` (or, for the modules that
don't support intltool, `msgmerge <lang> <POT>`).

-d


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