Translation setup for plone

[Hanno Schlichting]

Jordi Mallach wrote:
> Hi Felipe,
> 
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 11:23:09AM +0200, Felipe Gil Castiñeira wrote:
> 
>>Can you setup "plone" (Plone, Archetypes, ATContentTypes and
>>ATReferenceBrowserWidget) for translation through Rosetta?  ".po" and
>>".pot" files are in
>>http://svn.plone.org/collective/PloneTranslations/trunk/i18n/
> 
> Plone is nearly setup, but a bug that apparently only plone is able to
> trigger is delaying the upload of the plone po files. The rest of the
> translation domains are ready to go though. I hope we can resolve this
> problem soon.
> 
> Jordi
> 

Hi all.

I read this message with a bit of surprise as we (the i18n maintainers 
of Plone) are currently discussing if Rosetta is fitting our needs, but 
havn't come to a conclusion yet. Don't get me wrong here, I love Rosetta 
and it's definitly the way to go, but am still a bit unsure of the best 
way of utilizing it and what have to be changed in our current 
infrastructure to get it optimal ;)

But as it is set up now, I would kindly ask for maintainer privileges 
for the project (my launchpad username is hannosch) as I'm doing lots of 
the i18n management of Plone right now.

Having read only some of the documentation this far, I think of setting 
up a translators group for the management part of the project (as we are 
  some more people sharing the workload of i18n maintenance) which - 
permissions granted - I would be able to do myself, right?

Secondly I would like to know a bit more about how the pot/po-files are 
stored within Rosetta. As far as I understand it stores the files 
somewhere on its own storage, leading to the question how conflicts are 
meant to be dealt with, if someone is updating a po file on SVN and at 
the same time someone else is updating it through Rosetta? My current 
understanding is that the best way would be to disallow direct svn 
checkins and only allow updating through Rosetta?

Thirdly I would like to note that Plone the product consists of various 
smaller modules whose pot/po files were combined in one translation 
module (PloneTranslations) for ease of management and access by the 
translators. This wouldn't be necessary anymore with Rosetta so these 
would probably in the next Plone release be reintegrated into their own 
modules. As we are also adding some more modules these very days to be 
part of Plone core, I assume setting these up as 'packages' in Rosetta 
would be the right way to go?

I have some more questions, but will try to read as much docs as I can 
find first.

So long and thanks for all of Rosetta ;)

Hanno

P.S. What is this bug you are talking about? Something wrong on our side?