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

[Magnus Larsson]

I agree with your pain. I was surprised that I had to do this manually
too... Took me a whole day.

Yes, we Swedish are special so we have more lines... ;-)  No, it should be
the same lines for all languages I think...
I have updated all pot files and then updated all po files. That should come
to 14621 I think (as of yesterday at least)...
But I might have done something wrong... Maybe using too new pot files or
something.. Anyone knows the correct number?
Renato, check your "switchdesk" pot file and see how many lines it has...
Mine has 9 more than yours...

If you are more translators than one, it is even more important to have
up-to-date files. Imagine 10 translators merging the po file at the same
time. Ouch... This have to be done automatic I think...

Just look at the status page... Everyone has different number of messages so
it is quite obvious it doesn't work as it is. What is the use of having
half-translated po files that match an old version...?

/Magnus.

On 9/18/06, Renato Pavičić <repavici at globalnet.hr> wrote:
>
> 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?
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Renato Pavicic
>
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>
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