Re: [Tracker] Updating .po files

[Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it>]

Il giorno mar, 09/12/2008 alle 12.59 +0200, Ivan Frade ha scritto:
> Hi all,
>
>  I was checking this bug
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505685
>
>  Some strings are not correct in the .po files, but those strings are
> not used anymore in the code.
>
>  We must regenerate those .po files to clean the old stuff and receive
> valid bugs for the messages. Is there any problem with this? I don't
> know the procedure to handle the .po files... can i update them or
> should it be done by translators? Are there any translators in the
> mailing list?

Yes, me.

There is no need to regenerate .po files. Translators should grab
automatically updated po files from http://l10n.gnome.org/ or manually
check out code and use `intltool-update` before translate it.

Also, old translation living in svn is not an issue, 'cause at build or
dist time intltool remove them from .mo files

However, while examples in that bug are outdated, could be good check
tracker code for wrong or missing gettext plural forms, proper l10n/i18n
is a must have for a well behaving software.

OT about translations, I like a review of --help messages for stuff in 
tracker-utils; for example, following the GNU coding style, the --limit
option should be described as

        -l, --limit=LIMIT   Limit the results to LIMIT (default 512)
        
while now it's something like

        -l, --limit=512     Limit the results

I'm working on it, I'll provide an initial patch this week.