Noah Kantrowitz wrote: > 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.
Well, IIRC, only asmodai and you shared the opinion that those changesets weren't a problem, others were inclined to think more like me. Plus cmlenz and eblot were not part of that discussion, and I think their opinion matters. So I don't see the problem in presenting my arguments again, in a more structured way, on a discussion list were the topic can reach a wider audience (translators and other Trac contributors). -- Christian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
