I asked on #ubuntu-translators, and Robert, can you try what they suggest: (21:56:54) kelemengabor: also, on the simple scan thing, I think someone should commit the documentation pot template as help/simple-scan-help.pot, and then LP should be able to pick it up (21:57:31) kelemengabor: given that it is set to Import template files on the /trunk/+translations-settings page
Full log for your reference: Conversation with #ubuntu-translators at Fr 25 Nov 2011 21:21:37 CET on [email protected] (irc) (21:21:38) #ubuntu-translators: The topic for #ubuntu-translators is: ... (21:21:38) List of 27 users: ... (21:24:51) Michael Nagel: can someone help me with https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/simple-scan/+bug/543282 (21:24:53) ubot4: Launchpad bug 543282 in simple-scan (Ubuntu) (and 2 other projects) "Documentation cannot be translated (affects: 2) (heat: 14)" [High,Triaged] (21:25:27) Michael Nagel: what can be done so that translation of the documentation can be created? (21:35:45) andrejz: hello nailora. I think it's best to contact simple-scan team and ask them about it (21:36:34) RobinJ1995 is now known as RobinJ (21:37:07) Michael Nagel: robert ancell is the main (and only) developer for simple scan, and according to that bug he does not really know how to set up things (21:37:21) Michael Nagel: can you give me a hint that i can forward? (21:37:34) andrejz: from the comments (which are now a bit old) it seems they need to at least generate a .pot file (21:37:59) andrejz: hm, i am not the technical guy here ;) (21:38:05) andrejz: kelemengabor, are you there? (21:38:15) andrejz: your skills would be appriciated (21:44:51) kelemengabor: re (21:45:31) andrejz: how to enable translations for simple scan docs? (21:46:01) kelemengabor: umm, good question (21:47:00) andrejz: kelemengabor i was also wondering if you are aware of some nice technical resources about .po file translation mechanism somewhare (21:47:07) andrejz: i would to understand the background a little bit better (21:47:36) kelemengabor: mechanism? how about the gettext manual? (21:47:45) kelemengabor: http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html (21:48:02) kelemengabor: pretty comprehensive, if you ask me :) (21:48:26) andrejz: ok, i thinik this will be quite sufficient (21:51:32) kelemengabor: yw (21:56:54) kelemengabor: also, on the simple scan thing, I think someone should commit the documentation pot template as help/simple-scan-help.pot, and then LP should be able to pick it up (21:57:31) kelemengabor: given that it is set to Import template files on the /trunk/+translations-settings page (22:03:37) Michael Nagel: ok i will forward that info to the bug (22:03:42) Michael Nagel: thanks (22:06:12) kelemengabor: also this may be helpful too: https://help.launchpad.net/Translations/ImportingFromBazaarBranches (22:08:07) kelemengabor: nailora: thanks for bringing this up/pushing forward, this is definiately something I'd like to see sorted out before Precise :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/543282 Title: Documentation cannot be translated To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/simple-scan/+bug/543282/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
