Re: Po/pot tarballs on the status pages (was Re: gnome-i18ndigest, Vol 1 #1523 - 5 msgs)

[Carlos Perelló Marín <carlos gnome org>]

El vie, 02-04-2004 a las 15:19, Christian Rose escribió:

> > A simple compressed file with all the po files of the en_US or en_GB 
> > translation of 2.6 could save newcomers a lot of time (and people in the 
> > list a lot of explanations). I don't know how this would integrate later 
> > with the status pages, though.
> 
> Ah, now I see what you mean. Indeed, we want as many translators as
> possible to easily contribute, and part of that is to have low
> requirements for contribution, i.e. no knowledge or use of CVS or
> intltool should be required. This is also part of why we have the
> current status pages where the po/pot files can be easily downloaded
> from, and translated, without such knowledge.
> 
> Also, as you point out, an easy way of downloading all the relevant
> pot/po files for any language at once would be helpful in this respect,
> instead of having to click all the links on the status pages and
> download each file seperately. It seems such a thing would not be
> difficult to add to the current status pages, since the translation
> status pages have to process all the translations anyway -- a mechanism
> for tarring up the po/pot files for each language and status page
> section and providing this as an additional link on the various section
> pages should not be difficult.
> 
> In fact, I filed such a request last year as an enhancement request for
> the current status pages:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114122
> 
> However, it seems that unfortunately most such enhancement requests and
> bug reports for the current status pages are being blocked by Carlos for
> a long time being planning on rewriting the translation status pages
> entirely. I don't know the current status of that. Carlos, can you
> clarify on this matter and the above request in particular?

Sorry, I hope I will have more spare time to fix this problema with my
developments. I'm starting a new job now and I my new company will give
me some resources to improve the status pages as part of their social
projects. As an easy «fix» I will try to prepare a script to create a
tarball with all translations for every language, somethings like
gnome-l10n-LOCALE.tar.bz2 and a gnome-l10n-POT.tar.bz2 with all .pot
files, please give me suggestions about improvements about this, perhaps
gnome-2-6-essential-l10n-POT.tar.bz2 and
gnome-2-6-others-l10n-POT.tar.bz2 will be better?

Of course, I don't want to block any work about status pages, if you
want to do anything about them and I don't answer anything about it,
just go ahead and do any improvement (Of course, my normal way to do
things is just answer although I'm busy).

Someone (I don't remember the name and I don't see the mail now, sorry)
talked with me about an web interface with python to have easily
maintained stats pages, I think he's right but instead of python, I'm
looking at PHP, it's the normal way to do things like this kind of pages
and I think it's easier to get PHP people helping with web interfaces
than python ones (And I know PHP better than Python).

The problem here is that due several personal things changed my
priorities and spare time + several implementation changes before stable
releases, that's the cause for the delay. Now the things look better and
I will be ready to test new status pages soon (I was waiting some days
more but I think you need an explanation now instead of delay it more).


Cheers.

> 
> 
> Christian
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