Re: localisation: status, migration to pootle

[Mattias Engdegård]

Sorry about resuming an old thread, but since most translations are  
not kept up to date, what about switching to the Translation Project  
instead?

There are experienced teams for the languages that Subversion is  
currently translated into and many more. The risk for orphaned  
localisations will be lower since the teams deal with continuity  
themselves. Users will enjoy higher consistency in terms of vocabulary  
and style across software packages.

The details can be read at http://translationproject.org, but in  
essence, it would work as follows:

1. As a release is getting near, the Subversion release manager sends  
the .pot file, or an URL to a source tarball containing the .pot file  
(that is up to date), to the project.
2. As each translation is finished, a robot will send the .po file to  
this list.
3. Someone, perhaps the release manager, commits the .po files as they  
arrive.