Re(2): Automerge .po files with .pot files !

[Renato Pavičić]

Dana Mon, 18 Sep 2006 06:54:24 +0200, Ankitkumar Rameshchandra Patel  
<ankit at redhat.com> napisali ste:

Hi,

I am in support of your effot 100%!

Yesterday I've spent some 3 (three) hours in proces of updating all  
Croatian PO's with available POT's. Now, this is something I can do once a  
month (erm, with no pleasure), but I cannot do that once a week,  
especially every day.

I am thankfull to script brasilian team provied to us (was it brasilians?  
I forgot, sry), but I cannot use that script as often as I wish. Over last  
few months for private/professional reason I have to use Win. Therefore, I  
translate under win. So, all updating has to be preformed under Win, with  
Tortoise CVS.

On KDE localization site, they have automated scipt that runs once a day  
and updates all _existing_ PO's with all available POT's. There is also a  
web-svn access, where I can simply browse repository and dload POT for a  
currently non-existent PO.

I was about to suggest that putting an additional column depicting POT  
line number would be enough, but then I realized what if line number stays  
the same despite changes? (minor changes, same number of added and deleted  
lines).

Long time ago, when there were less languages and modules, manual update  
of PO's was not som much of a trouble. But today there are numerous  
languages and modules. Automation of updating will enhance overall work.

Furthermore, when Fedora is prepared for distributing, developers will  
have finished and updated PO's at their convinience.

I am still worried about the fact when my PO shows 100%, but POT has  
different line number (it happened several times). There were some  
reductions in lines. Ie, after update Croatian language has:
14587 lines

But for instance, Swedish has:
14621 lines

What's with surpulus in Swedish? Do they realy have more lines that other  
languages?
If not, what will happen to those lines? It's clear that if they missed to  
update their PO's, then they have not only surplus lines, but they are  
also lacking some!

Bacause, on each my update, if there are new lines, there are several  
deprecated lines as well. If I update all PO's, and "day after" there are  
changes in POT, and I miss to update my PO, and it still shows up 100%,  
what then?

Oh, btw, did I mention that I am sole translator? It is easier if there  
are several translators, they can divide their work among themselves, but  
when your alone...

Best regards
Renato
Croatian localization

> Thanks to all who have replied and shown their interests in making the  
> process better.
>
> Finally, what's the decision made by the Fedora Localization Maintainers?
>



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Best regards,
Renato Pavicic

mailto:repavici at globalnet.hr
also mailto:renato at translator-shop.org
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Official Opera translator for Croatian language since April 2006