Re: F10 Release Notes PO files

[Noriko Mizumoto <noriko redhat com>]

Magnus Larsson さんは書きました:
> It doesn't destroy it. If it did, you would have to re-translate all
> strings, every time you update a POT file...
> One thing to be careful about is the msgmerge and msgfmt commands. They will
> destroy your po files if it cannot merge. So I wrote a simple script to
> "backup" my po file before I merge it. Se below.
>
> The only problem with updating the POT file, is when you update too early
> (not completely finished release notes). Then translators will translate
> things that maybe will be deleted in later versions and waste time. So I
> say, if the doc is almost finished (and only minor fixes are made) then
> update the POT file as often as possible.

I found (I think) that Transifex does not warn any conflict but accept 
the commit, thus it can override latest file with older file.
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=docs/release-notes.git;a=history;f=po/ko.po;h=f735a3c67bc60dd37cfe55fa79bf063689555cd7;hb=HEAD

> #!/bin/bash
> LANG=sv
>       echo "kor.."
>       cp sv.po sv.po.beforemerge.$RANDOM
>       msgmerge sv.po *.pot > tmp.po
>       mv tmp.po sv.po
>       msgfmt -cvo /dev/null sv.po

Thanks you Magunus,
This helps a lot.

noriko
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster gmail com>wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 11:44:23AM -0300, Domingo Becker wrote:
> > > 2008/11/5 Paul W. Frields <stickster gmail com>:
> > > > On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 11:08:55AM +1000, Noriko Mizumoto wrote:
> > > > > Hi
> > > > >
> > > > > It seems that POT and PO files have now been updated.
> > > > > This was supposed to happen on 6-Nov, and many of us have not
> > committed
> > > > > our files yet. We now have to stop working.
> > > > > http://git.fedoraproject.org/git/?p=docs/release-notes.git;a=summary
> > > > >
> > > > > One funny thing to me, the total number of strings decreased to 1024
> > > > > strings...
> > > > >
> > > > > Could someone please let us know what is happening?
> > > > Noriko,
> > > >
> > > > I believe I'm the person who updated the POT, but I thought I was
> > > > giving translators early content to make sure they were able to work
> > > > as long as possible on the correct content.
> > > >
> > > > Are you saying that updating the POT files destroys your previous
> > > > work?  I thought that the update would simply mark new strings that
> > > > have changed a little bit as fuzzy.  Does this really require that
> > > > work stop?  Don't translators have a way of getting the updates
> > > > without destroying their existing work?
> > > It seems it does not destroy translations.
> > > I started translations with an es.po file a week ago, I commited
> > > translations some hours ago, against the new es.po file with the new
> > > strings and it seems it does not destroy my work.
> > > t.fp.o [1] shows for Spanish 341/476/207 (1024 strings) while my
> > > poEdit shows 353/477/200 (1030 strings). Of course, I have to download
> > > the new .po file to continue working.
> > I wonder what will happen when we do the *next* change of the POT and
> > PO.  I expect that the gettext utils would mark some things fuzzy if
> > there is a slight change between your work and the new updates.  I
> > would certainly hope that no work would be completely lost or futile!
> >
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