On May 12, 2008, at 6:23 AM, Christian Boos wrote: > > Now, on a related note but still on the very "make i18n practicable" > subject, I've started to improve the documentation related to > translations. While the level of documentation was good enough for me > (thanks Jeroen for getting me started on this!), I think more detailed > guidelines should be given to translators, so that they can more > effectively contribute. > > For me, it makes absolutely no sense that translators contribute > translations without at the same time running their translated version > of Trac and verifying how good their translations are in context. A > given translation that maybe looks fine in the .po file may seem wrong > once seen in context within Trac (I verified this more than once > with my > own bits of french translations). > > As the translators should have a running Trac for their tests, they > also > need to have at hand all the toolchain (Python, Genshi and Babel). The > only constraint being that everybody needs to have the exact /same/ > versions of the tools, so that there's no variation in the msgids. > This > is what I've started to document in the TracL10N page > (http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracL10N?version=57) and we should > continue to do so as the toolchain evolves. > > If we can agree on the above, there will be no point in continuing to > keep the trac/locale/messages.pot in the repository, neither to store > catalog updates without contributing actual translation enhancements. > This is simply useless as anyone following the guidelines above can > replay those steps and regenerate those files in exactly the same way. > Otherwise, the real changes are lost among the noise.
We already went over this and made it very clear to you that we don't all agree on this point. Trying to raise this argument again is counterproductive and passive-aggressive. The messages.pot file will remain in Subversion for the foreseeable future, until a translation portal can be established. --Noah --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
