Translations for SchoolTool and SchoolBell

[Carlos Perelló Marín]

On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 16:42 +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 01:09:24PM +0200, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 11:28 +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote:
> > > I have found some second hand info on the net that rosetta is able to
> > > harvest translation templates from ubuntu packages as they are being
> > > built. This seems very interesting, how would I set this up for
> > > SchoolTool?
> > 
> > It will not work for upstream projects, only for packages inside Ubuntu.
> 
> Both SchoolTool and SchoolBell are packages in the ubuntu universe for a
> while now. (source packages schooltool and schoolbell)

Ok. Then they are not automatically imported because we need to
implement the layout python uses to store the .pot/.po files.

It's part of our TODO but will not be done in next month and a half.

> 
> Or do you mean only debconf translations?

No, usually all .po files are automatically imported into Rosetta, but
there are some corner cases like python/PHP projects that are not being
imported because a limitation in our importer.

You should note too that if you choose to use Ubuntu translations
directly only the .pot files that are released will be imported into
Rosetta. Depending on the project that's a problem or not, is up to you
to decide if it works for you or not. Also, your translation team should
be integrated with Ubuntu's translation teams.

Please, tell me if you choose this option so we put the python layout
support on top of our priorities after our 1.0 release in a month and a
half.

> 
> > We plan to prepare a solution for upstream translations, but it's not a
> > planned feature for next month and a half.
> > 
> > > 
> > > The other option seems to be to update the translations manually every
> > > now and then.
> > 
> > Yes, that's the solution we have now for upstream translations.
> > 
> > 
> > For the initial import of SchoolTool's .pot and .po files I need you
> > send us the URL where we can get them so we import it inside the release
> > I think you created at:
> > https://launchpad.ubuntu.com/products/schooltool/0.10-rc1
> 
> That is just the problem, there is no canonical url as the .pot's are
> automatically generated and not stored in the repository at all
> (Following the never store auto-generated files in repositories mantra).

Well, I will do the upload only the first time, the other times should
be uploaded by you so I only need a .pot file that you generate for me,
that's all.

> 
> > For SchoolBell, Tom Hoffman imported it already some months ago, so you
> > should just update the .pot file.
> 
> Indeed we have already with a much more recent translation and probably
> will include the schoolbell translations in the next release.


Cool!.

> 
> > btw, will you be the "official" contact with the SchoolTool project?
> > (the direct question is... will you be the one uploading .pot files?)
> 
> In so far as I have picked up the task, it seems a good fit with my
> "odd-job man of the project (Release manager/Package Maintainer)" role.


Ok, will ask an ownership change for the Schoolbell POTemplate so when
the restrictions we are implementing land in the server you are able to
update it.

If you choose to use Ubuntu as you translation source, we could move
current SchoolBell translations there. The same for SchoolTool, we can
go now with the manual import and when we implement the support for
Python layout, move them to Ubuntu translations.

Cheers.

> 
> -- 
> Brian Sutherland
> 
> It's 10 minutes, 5 if you walk fast.

-- 
Carlos Perelló Marín
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http://carlos.pemas.net
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