Package: qa.debian.org Version: unavailable; reported 2003-08-20 Severity: wishlist
Hello, I was wondering if it would be possible to add a new box to the package status page about the status of translations in that package. All the needed infos are already extracted from the packages by a cron script to generate w.d.o/intl/l10n, there is "only" need to parse the result of this and display it on the appropriate page. The daily-updated database of all relevant informations can be downloaded from: http://ftp-master.debian.org/~barbier/l10n/material/data/unstable.gz and http://non-us.debian.org/~barbier/l10n/material/data/unstable.gz The syntax of this file is rather simple and close to the classical dpkg status format. We already have tools to parse it, but it is in perl :) Beyong the classical dpkg status fields, there is a few more: MENU, MAN, DEBCONF, PODEBCONF and PO. menu and man, are kind of experimental for now (and should be ignored). The important fields for now are DEBCONF, PODEBCONF and PO. These fields introduce a list of lists. Lets take an example. Package: aegis Version: 4.11-2 Section: devel Priority: optional Maintainer: Chris G. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PoolDir: main/a/aegis Type: ? Upstream: other PO: lib/de/LC_MESSAGES/aegis.po!de!622t0f0u!lib/de/LC_MESSAGES/aegis_4.11-2_aegis.po lib/en/LC_MESSAGES/aegis.po!en!622t0f0u!lib/en/LC_MESSAGES/aegis_4.11-2_aegis.po lib/es/LC_MESSAGES/aegis.po!es!622t0f0u!lib/es/LC_MESSAGES/aegis_4.11-2_aegis.po lib/fr/LC_MESSAGES/aegis.po!fr!622t0f0u!lib/fr/LC_MESSAGES/aegis_4.11-2_aegis.po lib/nl/LC_MESSAGES/aegis.po!nl!622t0f0u!lib/nl/LC_MESSAGES/aegis_4.11-2_aegis.po lib/ro/LC_MESSAGES/aegis.po!ro!622t0f0u!lib/ro/LC_MESSAGES/aegis_4.11-2_aegis.po lib/ru/LC_MESSAGES/aegis.po!ru!622t0f0u!lib/ru/LC_MESSAGES/aegis_4.11-2_aegis.po po/aegis.pot!_!!po/aegis_4.11-2_aegis.pot PODEBCONF: templates.pot!_!!debian/po/aegis_4.11-2_templates.pot debian/aegis.templates!_!!aegis_4.11-2_debian_aegis.templates debian/po/pt_BR.po!pt_BR!6t0f0u!debian/po/aegis_4.11-2_pt_BR.po It means that the version 4.11-2 of aegis (currently in unstable) contains both po files (to translate the program itself) and po debconf files (to translate the installation process). The main difference with the DDTP is that we speak here of what is currently in the package, not of what is laying on an external server unavailable to users until integrated by the DD. More precisely, this package is translated in the languages de, en, es, fr, nl, ro and ru. The field after listing the language gives the current status of this translation. Here, 622 translated strings, no fuzzy strings (needing to be reviewed by the translation maintainer) neither any untranslated string. Quite impressive indeed :) The listed pot file is the template to download in order to start a new translation and the templates file is the one which were used to generate the pot file in case of templates. Both should be ignored for now. How to display it on the pages is left as exercice to the reader :) What about a box on the right displaying: Average translation 100% (po: 100%; debconf: 100%) Details for each languages fr: 99% (po: 100%; debconf:0%) ... (the first item only containing the freshness of included translation, explaining that french has only 99% when the overall is 100%) You could add a TODO item to all packages using the old DEBCONF system, since it is deprecated by po-debconf, according to Joey Hess. Of course I am willing to help and do my part of the job if I'm directed to the right parts of the source. It would be easy to extract the name of the last translator of each po file, and thus allow the creation of a "translator.php" such as the "developer.php", but I guess it's a bit too early to dream about that. Likewise, we have leads to find the translation project in charge of each package, to redirect contributors to the right address. But one step after another... The question is wheather you accept to add such informations to the pts or if we have to redevelop from the scratch such a system for the translation issues. Thanks for your time, Mt. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux galadriel 2.4.20 #1 dim mar 30 23:53:59 CEST 2003 i686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
