Hi,
I would like to give a short update on the progress I have made so far.
- I was able to setup a local Pootle server for my testing purposes. So
far so good ;-)
- I created a new SDF file based on the current available resources
- Based on this en-US.sdf file I was able to create a new set of POT files
- I created another SDF file containing the current "en-US" strings +
the available "de" and "es" strings. Means the already available
localizations in our repository (as a well defined start).
- Based on this I have created new sets of PO files for "de" and "es"
and have updated my local Pootle server with these languages
The good thing is that I was able to verify the changes I have made for
the the About are reflected in the po files and need attention.
Some data:
German - 4457 words need attention - 81530
Spanish - 4028 words need attention - 81530
A little bit surprising is the reduced number of words, well we have
removed dialogs but compared to the available data on the Apache Pootle
server (89396) I think we have to check this carefully.
But I have noticed that 6 template files have problems and couldn't be
read. I haven't figured out the problem yet and I am working on this.
Further steps:
- analyze the template reading error -> any kind of tip is appreciated!!!
- I will change some German Strings and will extract the data from
pootle -> sdf and will prepare a new Germany version base don the
changes to see if the roundtrip works.
When I am sure that the round trip works I would propose the following:
- create new templates based on the latest new created sdf files
- prepare new po files for all languages based on the data we have
currently in the repository and which is used for the build at the moment.
- update the Pootle server with the new set of po/pot files
- provide the files for offline usage to translators
- translators can check if their local (if available) backups are newer
than the provided data and can merge/update the data accordingly
- finished translations are merged back into the repository
Future improvements:
will coming later but I think we have a lot room for improvements here ;-)
Any opinions, questions, feedback or comments? I am really looking
forward to improve the whole translation process with you together.
Juergen
PS: who has some more grey hairs now ;-)
On 3/11/12 10:01 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote:
Hi,
I would like to inform you that I am currently investigating a complete
round trip for translations and try to understand how it works in detail.
resources -> sdf -> po -> translation -> po -> sdf -> resources -> build
office
I think it is important that we first understand and know how the
process works and that we have a well define state on the pootle server
where we can start with.
Juergen
