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

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

tis 2004-04-06 klockan 00.05 skrev Carlos Perelló Marín:
> > 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?

Perhaps one for each "section", so you would have (for Swedish [sv]):

"gnome-2-6-desktop-sv.tar.bz2" with all sv.po files in the desktop
section (and pot files for the modules where a sv.po file is not
present), and

"gnome-2-6-developer-libs-sv.tar.bz2" with all sv.po files in the
developer-libs section (and pot files for the modules where a sv.po file
is not present),

and so on for every section on the translation status pages. Slightly
more files, but the benefit is that you could then easily add a link to
such file at the bottom of every language section page, so that we at
the bottom of
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/status/gnome-2.6/sv/desktop/ 
would in addition have a link to gnome-2-6-desktop-sv.tar.bz2 containing
all files on the page in a single tarball suitable for easy downloading.
In addition, it would be beneficial to have
"gnome-2-6-desktop-C.tar.bz2" and "gnome-2-6-developer-libs-C.tar.bz2"
and so on that would just contain pot files for the respective sections.
If they could be in a fixed place, then it would be easy to point new
volunteers to them ("This is what you need to translate").

Just my suggestion. :-)


Christian