On Jul 29, 2009, at 2:09 PM, TAKAGI Masahiro wrote:
Hi,
I'm sorry for delaying response to you. Now I've got back from my
vacation :-)
First of all, I perfectly agree with the idea of converting docbook to
PO files. We should do it sooner or later.
The consensus seems to agree, although of course not everyone will
especially considering the difficulty and enormous change. As for
sooner versus later, the complexity of this surprised me a bit so I
think it might take awhile. There are the tools to build (with phd),
tools to manage (transifix and/or pootle and/or other), the conversion
itself, the change in process (POT files?), and the documentation/howto.
If this figure (about 20% loss) is true, I'm so uneasy in the
conversion now. I think we can spend a little extra time to
preparation for the accuracy of conversion.
I'll continue tweaking and provide data for what failed so we can
better figure out why. I'm again working on it so will update the
scripts for SVN, publish them for people to play with, and then we'll
decrease the failures.
Of course, I know that we can't avoid some loss. But personally 20%
isn't acceptable.
Agreed. Also note that it does try to sync outdated translations with
the associated EN version on a per file basis.
Regards,
Philip
