Moving OOo translation project over to Rosetta/Launchpad

[Tim Morley]

Hi there.

I've been leading a l10n project at OpenOffice.org for a while, and  
we've been looking for some sort of platform to coordinate the  
distributed translation effort.

Launchpad/Rosetta seems to go a good way to providing what we want,  
but there are two things which I think are feature requests. (At  
least, I couldn't find the features, having just used Launchpad for  
an hour or so). Forgive me if I'm going over old ground, and feel  
free to reply with just URLs pointing to the answers to my questions,  
if they've already been answered in detail elsewhere.

Feature Request 1, an absolute must-have: our existing .po files are  
packed full of comments, showing queries from one translator, answers  
from another with references to source code files, etc. The comments  
clearly show other translators how reliable a particular translation  
is, i.e. whether it's just a first idea by an inexperienced team  
member, or a pretty good guess, or the best we can come up with but  
we're open to suggestions, or something close to perfection, cross- 
referenced with a dozen other languages and with source code  
references too. Without the comments (and I think I'm right in saying  
that the comments are at least hidden, if not thrown away  
completely), all we've got is some words, which may or may not need  
further attention.

I'm well aware of the fuzzy tag, but this is a very blunt instrument  
and not even close to what we need.

Feature Request 2, a would-be-nice-to-have: it'd be good to know  
*who* translated *what*, not just who worked on a particular file  
last. I realise I'm probably asking rather a lot on this one, but  
it's very useful information, particularly in a small team, with some  
dedicated, experienced and meticulous translators (i.e. whose work is  
a joy to proof-read because there's so little to change), and some  
members who are, shall we say, lacking in one or more of the above  
areas.

I've also got a question: is it easy enough to upload the .po files  
we've done so far to Rosetta?

Thanks in advance for your replies.


Tim Morley

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