Andrea Turrini <andrea.turrini@gmail.com> writes:
2011/5/16 Carlos E. R. <carlos.e.r@opensuse.org>:
Developers must take responsibility and generate the pot files everytime they change something, and upload that pot file to our server if it has changed. Being devs, they could automate this.
And is it possible to convince them to do this? For example, adding a new event in the roadmap (say, one week before MS5) where devs should update pot files.
I guess, we just must tell coolo about it when we agree. In the past, I sent notification mails to the developers either to update the pot files, or adding done translations to their packages. There is a simple script that can help with these reminders: 50-tools/maintainer-reminder.sh
In my opinion, it should be managed in a centralized way: there should be a common folder (say "discontinued" or "removed") at the same level of lcn and yast, containing the trees with root lcn, yast, and webyast; once a pot file is removed from svn, then all corresponding po files should be moved in the corresponding place inside "discontinued".
Personally, I do not like these "discontinued" directories. I'd rather vote to add all good translations to the memory or compendium files, and then simple remove the outdated translation files. There also exists a script: 50-tools/lcn-remove-textdomain.sh
I do not know how easy it is to write a similar script, but it can be useful: translators should not care whether a po file is orphan and they know where to find orphan files if they need of an already translated string.
The "problem" is that nobody will tell you in advance, which files are obsolete. YOu usually must ask the old maintainer or project guru.
From time to time I try to do a little bit cleanup in this area. Thanks for your input, which is very useful!
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