Hi All, This question is about enabling web-based translation tools (such as Pootle http://pootle.wordforge.org/, etc) to translate GNOME. I am asking to get some feedback in the sense of "ok, not bad" or "no!! wrong direction. Burn!".
A Web-based translation tool is supposed to do the hard job of finding the .po files, allowing the user to translate in a friendly Web-based interface, and potentially commit automatically back to GNOME CVS. To get Web translation tools to attach to GNOME CVS, the tool can either maintain a local copy of GNOME CVS, or use the POT/PO files from http://l10n-status.gnome.org/ The former provides completeness, the latter allows easier independent local installations around the world. Using http://l10n-status.gnome.org/ as input looks very promising, and this is what I am asking your opinion about. Option A is to have Web-translation tools to grab .po/.pot files from the statistics pages, let translate and then somehow manually update GNOME CVS. Option B is to have the tool do the whole job automagically, including CVS commits. Some details ========== a. The Web-translation tool would first be configured to work on languages that the team leader says it's ok. http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/teams.html to be used for the permission issue. b. The stat pages contain complete information to locate the .po/.pot files, such as branch, folder, location of .po files and so on. That info could be parsed from HTML. Any suggestions to have some other format for these data, that's easier to parse? c. There will be a dependancy to the structure of the HTML pages, unless again there is some sort of XML file, listing the complete information of the translation files. d. Web-translation tools could commit the changes using either a common CVS account (for example, for Pootle, you can either translate through the main installation at http://pootle.wordforge.org/ or install it on your own), or have team leaders (that want to do Web-based translation) put their username/password in the Web-translation system. Regards, Simos Xenitellis http://simos.info/ _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n