Re: Reduced po files on l10n.gnome.org

[Petr Kovar <pmkovar gnome org>]

Hi Claude!

Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>, Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:56:44 +0100:

> Hi, this is me again :-)
> 
> If you read Friedel's blog post [1], you should know that we worked
> recently on offering reduced po files on l10n.gnome.org, so as strings
> that users rarely see in UI may be skipped by some translation teams.
> 
> You will see several pages with new columns for the reduced version of
> UI file statistics.
> Currently, the only filtering is done on the "gschema.xml.in" presence
> in the source of a string. Of course, we will concentrate on finer
> filtering (even per-module) as soon as global stats and ui is stabilized
> on the site.
> I didn't triggered a complete regeneration of statistics, so the
> filtering is currently only applied when there are string changes or if
> I manually force a module to update. That's why the gain is not so
> obvious currently.
> 
> 
> On the Vertimus page, you may find two different files to translated,
> only if you gain anything with a reduced po file.
> See http://l10n.gnome.org/vertimus/nautilus/master/po/km
> 
> Already translated strings or fuzzy strings are never stripped off the
> file.
> 
> You can choose to translate the complete file or the reduced one, as you
> want.
> 
> Report any bugs you find on Bugzilla and discuss here for design issues.

First off, thanks so much for implementing this often requested feature!
It'll be surely appreciated especially by smaller teams out there.

How about initial comment lines in catalogs, though? When I download a
random reduced catalog, I see that those lines with a list of translators,
copyright info etc. seem to have been stripped. Is this on purpose?

FWIW, I've spotted a similar problem in the current Transifex.net
application some time ago, so this might be a heads up for those of you
fellow translators who use Tx.net for localizing freedesktop.org modules
etc. - beware of losing data that might be important for you or your team:

http://trac.transifex.org/ticket/675

Best,
Petr Kovar