Have you considered using this online service:

http://translations.launchpad.net/

It won't help organise the files ... you'll still need to do that.
But it will provide a nice way for translators to work on the
translations without having to setup the correct environment.  All
translations can be done on the web.



On Nov 11, 10:09 am, Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 Nov 2009 12:44:35 am Bruce Kroeze wrote:
>
> > > I do translation - from what I gather there are several .po files. As a
> > > translator, I would prefer to have just one (or two, one for ordinary and
> > > the other for js). These should preferably live in the root. That way I
> > > can concentrate on translation, without worrying about how the
> > > application handles it. Django has it this way, and so do most of the
> > > apps I have seen.
>
> > I did split the .po files, probably messily.  However, I'm not in
> > completely sold on the way we are doing it.  To be honest, I'd prefer
> > to do it in whatever way will encourage more translators to
> > contribute.
>
> > However, I think that we must have a split for the .po files for the
> > "very soon to be separate projects."  At the moment, that means a
> > separate file for django-livesettings, django-keyedcache,
> > django-bursar, and Satchmo.
>
> actually satchmo is next on my todo list after I finish the one I am doing 
> now.
> I personally feel that the fewer the .po files the better. What you save in
> avoiding duplication for the translator and across the files is about the same
> as what you gain in having shorter .po files for the split off projects. 
> Anyway,
> the programmers are the best judges of that. And 4 is anyway better than 24.
> (If you are curious, I do Tamil translations)
> --
> regards
> kghttp://lawgon.livejournal.com

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