This was sent in private email to localizers, but we've decided to keep l10n discussion on dev so here it is with Brian's permission, including my response.
Brian Kirsch wrote: > Hello, > The latest Chandler.pot has been generated for the 0.7.4 branch and is > now in SVN. > > I have gone through and merged the French, Swedish, Finnish, and German > po files and > checked them in to the localization SVN. > > Swedish: 9 strings to translate > Finnish: 12 strings to translate > German: 15 strings to translate and 1 fuzzy string > French: 15 strings to translate > > I wanted to take a second to discuss future process regarding localization. > > I believe it makes the most sense to wait to update the po files until a > branch has > been created. At that point, I will generate the new pot file and merge > the changes > with the existing translations for our localization team to update. This makes you the bottleneck in the process, when there does not really need to be central processing. Sure, it can be a nice service for those who do not wish to do so, but in general I don't like it for a few reasons: 1) I prefer to update my translation from time to time, rather than doing everything at the last minute after branching. I might not have time for translation work during the 1 week or so between branching and point release. 2) I think I would be a better judge of Finnish merge success compared to you, since I'm actually the person doing the translation. It is very easy for me to see what the merge is going to do when I do the merge, but relatively difficult if someone else does it. (I think I had more reasons, but they escape me at the moment.) > I will send an email and then you guys can hack away at the files. > > If everyone is generating their own pot files and doing their own > merging it > can be error prone. Especially as the number of translations increase. > > Sound good? > > -Brian -- Heikki Toivonen
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