>
> I was under the impression that translators run `make update-po`? I
> just assumed that everything in the po directory was handled by the
> i18n/l10n team. Looking now, several of our .po files have recent
> "POT-Creation-Date"s. Though several have old ones, as well.
>
> Do I need to run `make update-po`? Do I need to do any checking to
> ensure that the .po files aren't adversely affected by running this
> command? I apologize for being so clueless in this area.
>
Most translation maintainers don't generate pots/pos from sources, they
just grab the updated po's from l10n.gnome.org. The software behind
l10n.gnome.org (damned-lies) generates them using intltool as far as I
see.
If you update the po's yourself somehow outside, most translators will
override them, as we assume only we work on the po files and
damned-lies.
I guess the good thing to do is to make intltool catch the strings,
otherwise I think it is a bit too late to inform translators of what
needs to be done, unfortunatly :-( .tarballs due in two days right?