Re: String changes (additions) in Tomboy for plugin names and descriptions

["Sanford Armstrong" <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>]

On 3/3/07, Djihed Afifi <djihedlists googlemail com> wrote:
> >
> > 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?

Well, the string in question appears to exist here:

http://l10n.gnome.org/POT/tomboy.HEAD/tomboy.HEAD.pot

So I think we're good, right?

Sandy