[Fedora-trans-ar] Do we have any Web Developers within?

[Mohammad Ghoniem]

Salâms,

Attached is a java parser that loads data from a PO file into an 
instance of POFile (an ArrayList of POMessages). For now, a POMessage 
has three strings : comments, msgid and msgstr. If necessary, we can 
easily add a unique numeric ID or a hashcode to identify each message. 
Having read the specs of PO files sent by Sherif, I realized that the 
header of each PO file is actually a POMessage, which simplified the 
previous code. The parser now takes into account all types of comments + 
multiple-line strings.

It handles Arabic strings correctly using the UTF-8 charset. Other 
charsets can be passed to the parser. Therefore all languages supported 
by java can be handled by this parser. Please test it on your side and 
give me feedback.

As far as I understand next step would deal with storing and retrieving 
data in/from a database. If so, we need to discuss this point carefully 
to cover all use cases. Here is a small list :
1- From an administrator point of view :
1a- in preparation of a new release, load all PO files into the database.
1b- build up PO files from data stored into the database to ship with an 
upcoming release.

2- From a maintainer/QA operator's point of view :
2a- browse the list of changes made by the translators
2b- validate/invalidate the changes, when a string is validated, it is 
merged with original version.
2c- assign files to translators

3- From a translator's point of view :
3a- browse the list of his/her personal assignments
3b- browse the list of unassigned PO files and take one of them.
3c- work on a given PO file including modifying msgstr strings and the 
flags (fuzzy state) of each message and adding comments
3d- notify the maintainer when his work is done.
3e- the translator's info should be appended automatically to the header 
data.
3f- the translation team should be able to discuss translations through 
some kind of forum related to each PO file. (this is not urgent nor 
mandatory)
3g- translators should have a search facility through some kind of 
glossary, if available. (this is not urgent nor mandatory)

Any other ideas or comments ? :)

Apart from that, can you Sherif enlight us about the lifecycle of a PO 
file in fedora from one release to the next ? What changes can occur ? 
How does this fit in the previous scenarios ?

Salâm

Mohammad
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