On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 11:44:23AM -0300, Domingo Becker wrote: > 2008/11/5 Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx>: > > On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 11:08:55AM +1000, Noriko Mizumoto wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> It seems that POT and PO files have now been updated. > >> This was supposed to happen on 6-Nov, and many of us have not committed > >> our files yet. We now have to stop working. > >> http://git.fedoraproject.org/git/?p=docs/release-notes.git;a=summary > >> > >> One funny thing to me, the total number of strings decreased to 1024 > >> strings... > >> > >> Could someone please let us know what is happening? > > > > Noriko, > > > > I believe I'm the person who updated the POT, but I thought I was > > giving translators early content to make sure they were able to work > > as long as possible on the correct content. > > > > Are you saying that updating the POT files destroys your previous > > work? I thought that the update would simply mark new strings that > > have changed a little bit as fuzzy. Does this really require that > > work stop? Don't translators have a way of getting the updates > > without destroying their existing work? > > > > It seems it does not destroy translations. > I started translations with an es.po file a week ago, I commited > translations some hours ago, against the new es.po file with the new > strings and it seems it does not destroy my work. > t.fp.o [1] shows for Spanish 341/476/207 (1024 strings) while my > poEdit shows 353/477/200 (1030 strings). Of course, I have to download > the new .po file to continue working. I wonder what will happen when we do the *next* change of the POT and PO. I expect that the gettext utils would mark some things fuzzy if there is a slight change between your work and the new updates. I would certainly hope that no work would be completely lost or futile! -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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