Hi Pierre, I think you have touched on an important issues and although I am also wondering if Jonathan proposal might provide for similar (although less "blingy") effect with less effort, it is clear that the way we do translations now can make things a bit tedious and contributing new translations back to the project requires a high level of motivation.
If I understand it correctly, Jonathan's suggestion has a lower bling factor but depending on how it is implemented could make translating and perhaps as important, contributing new translations much easier for people who are new to Web2py. As it stands now when you do a translation on a "per application" basis your application translation is mixed in with the Web2py translation. So in order to contribute all your hard work you need to cleanup the file or copy and paste your Web2py translations into a "clean" file in order to contribute them. This makes for a lot of extra work so contributors submit "dirty" files or need to be very motivated to do Web2py translations. If we had two files and a diff setup or perhaps even three files we might be able to substantially increase the amount of high quality Web2py translations that get submitted to the Web2py project in addition to offering developers / translators an great deal of flexibility as far as language is concerned. Off the top of my head if... nv.py <- global, contains only translations for Web2py itself and the Welcome application. nv.py <-per appliciation # a "copy" of the global file. nv-app.py <- per-applicaiton , application specific translations (custom). This would keep the applications nv.py "clean" so that it could be quickly and easily submitted back to the Web2py project itself with no cleanup of the application specific translations required, we could even have an "email" translation contribution button if we wanted. On May 19, 8:39 am, Pierre Thibault <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I didn't have a lot of feedback on this proposal. I thought it will > help translators but now I am wondering if it would be time well > spent. > > Please post a comment if this idea attracts interest.
