Hi Roger, Yesterday at 18:16, Roger Sperberg wrote:
> As per the advice on the Rosetta Import > Policy<https://help.launchpad.net/RosettaImportPolicy>page[1], I've > been exchanging emails with Gerald Schmidt, the developer of > XML Copy Editor, in preparation of using Launchpad for the Khmer > translation. Thanks for the interest in this, and I am glad that you found Import Policy page useful. In short, you pretty much got it correctly. > I have a couple of questions. > > What is the template that should be uploaded? I have a blank > messages.pofile corresponding to us-en from Gerald. I uploaded that as > us-en.po, but it seems Launchpad wants something more or something > different. Or else maybe it just wants this file with the name messages.pot? It expects a "something.pot", so yes, messages.pot will do the trick. > Second -- Gerald indicated he'll continue to work with translations in > German, French, Slovak, Swedish and zh-CN and zh-TW via external sources for > now. Should I ask him to post po files for those languages so people here > will know not to start translating from scratch? He should definitely do that regardless of whether people will use Launchpad for all translations or not. However, there is a risk of wasted work if we don't set the privileges properly: POT files should be regularly updated, and we should disallow translations for those languages in Launchpad anyway. Also, one the important bits for us is that we know you'll commit to sending all Launchpad-provided translations upstream, which is why we ask for maintainer approval in the first place. > I thought also that having > these translations online at Launchpad might help the translators of other > programs. I know that in my own case, I'm keen to find how other programs > have translated certain terms specific to XML, and I can see that the same > thing might apply to, oh, somebody working on some Slovak translation. That's true: having a big amount of translations is a very useful thing, indeed, and that helps with ideas and consistency at the same time. > The program is distributed with .mo files for those languages, not .po > files, btw. > > If the .po files aren't available for uploading to Launchpad for those other > languages, is there some recommended way to alert people who might think to > translate those versions? In the worst case, you can get PO files out of MO files with "msgunfmt" utility. > PS: I see that the list of .po and .po files being held for review dates > back to February -- is there any way to get XML Copy Editor reviewed in less > than four months? Thx. Sure. The current solution is to ping us using https://answers.launchpad.net/rosetta/ so we get to it faster. Or use this list. Also note that only initial upload of the POT file actually requires explicit approval: anything else is approved automatically, if you don't change the file names (eg. once we approve it as "messages.pot", it should always be "messages.pot"). PO files also get approved automatically once POT is imported. And if you ever get any problems or issues, you are welcome to ping us using Answer Tracker, this list or IRC (#launchpad on FreeNode, danilos, carlos or jtv). Cheers, Danilo -- launchpad-users mailing list launchpad-users@lists.canonical.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/launchpad-users
