Re: Translating release notes

[Nikos Charonitakis <nikosx gmail com>]

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 12:19:11 +0200, Nikos Charonitakis <nikosx gmail com> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:39:38 +0100, Danilo Åegan <danilo gnome org> wrote:
> > Hi Murray, translators,
> >
> > If you're a translator, you might want to skip the first part which is
> > mostly useful for managing *all* translations at a time.  If someone
> > is not aware, xml2po is part of gnome-doc-utils in Gnome CVS, and
> > requires GNU gettext, Python and libxml2 Python bindings.
> >
> > Yesterday at 10:29, Murray Cumming wrote:
> >
> > >> If you don't want to use gnome-doc-utils, you can merge translations
> > >> back simply using "xml2po -p sr/sr.po -o sr/rnotes.xml C/rnotes.xml",
> > >> but you might need to repeat this for every single file.
> > >
> > > Excellent. Could you please try this out in releng?
> >
> > First a note: there was a (tiny :) bug in xml2po which prevented it
> > from accepting certain kinds of messages.  It's fixed in CVS, so
> > please use that instead.
> >
> > I didn't change any of the previous layout of rnotes, so I couldn't
> > use gnome-doc-utils.make rules.  Thus, I simply resorted to writing a
> > po/Makefile which provides common actions:
> >
> >   1. Generate a POT file for translation
> >      "make release-notes.pot"
> >   2. Update all translations in PO files and print the stats out
> >      "make stats"
> >   3. Merge all translations back (sr.po -> xml-sr/*.xml)
> >      "make generate" or "make" (this will print the stats out as well)
> >   4. Periodically "run XMLFILES" to see if there's a missing file you
> >      might need to add there (I didn't do $(wildcard ../*.xml) on
> >      purpose, since you might need to exclude some files).
> >
> > Not using gnome-doc-utils means that some things (such as missing
> > translated screenshots) will cause problems in translations, so one
> > should do something like "if [ ! -f <lang>/figures/$i ]; then cp
> > figures/$i <lang>/figures/$i; fi".  I'll probably add something
> > similar in the rule for generating each translation.
> >
> > So far, I've added partial Serbian (20+ messages translated) and
> > German translation (1 message translated, probably that one is
> > incorrect too :).
> >
> > Translators should do the following:
> >   1. check-out entire releng/2.x/2.10rnotes/ module
> >   2. cd releng/2.x/2.10rnotes/po
> >   2a. if starting, eg. for German (de)
> >       "make release-notes.pot && cp release-notes.pot de.po"
> >   2b. if continuing your translation, sync it first
> >       "make de.po"
> >   3. update de.po with your favourite PO editor
> >   4. test translation:
> >      "make xml-de"
> >      then look at xml-de/*.xml files with Yelp
> >   5. add translated screenshots inside xml-de/figures/
> >   6. update po/ChangeLog
> >   7. commit de.po and xml-de/figures/*.png
> >      DO NOT COMMIT xml-de/*.xml files, which can be easily regenerated
> >      (and should probably be committed only prior to publication,
> >      depending on Gnome web infrastructure, but I think it's better
> >      that whoever manages this actually moves it someplace else, such
> >      as releng/2.x/2.10rnotes/).
> 
> Another issue:
> when i tried to make xml-el (the same case with xml-de)
> some strings althoogh  they are translated appeared in yelp untranslated.
> (This happened after the latest sync not in first place)
> 
> example string:
> The file manager, also known as Nautilus ...

Sorry false alarm: i open it with gedit and i saw the fuzzy entries...
> 
> > Now, it's up to release managers to decide what translations to
> > publish later on (you can use "make stats" to see which translation
> > is completely finished).  For all purposes, generated files in
> > xml-<lang> will exactly mirror the layout of parent 2.10rnotes
> > directory, so publishing should be as simple as pointing scripts to
> > different directories.
> >
> > Murray, there's a simple typo in release notes: look for "sticky
> > motes" ("motes" vs. "notes": I'm certain translators will find more
> > when they start translating).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Danilo
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