Hi all
What about moving all gimp-help to xml2po way of translation? That
will certainly make translation process more managable
Advantages:
1. We'll lower translation contribution barrier. Translation process
will be faster since translators won't care about docbook and will
just use existing tools.
2. We'll track changes simpler and keep translated content up-to-date.
3. Translators won't affect each other and content writers and will
work with their own files.
Disadvantages
1. Translator that use po files will have to precisely follow English
content. Note, that it still will be possible to write additional
translated content directly in source files, so I think it's a minor
problem.
2. Development will require additional tools - python and libxml2-
python. I think it's a minor requirement.
3. Minor modifications for content will be required still - you'll
need to assign headers.
4. No way to translate images right now from po, translation should
go directly to the content. We'll solve this technical problem later.
Proposal
I propose to apply the attached files. Basically, it modifies profiling
the following way. If po file for language does not exist, it works
as before. If file exists, it profiles for both $lang and en, replaces
en with translations according to po files, and then strips untranslated
en content. It works nicely, so I propose just to commit it and
encourage new translators to work with po instead while keeping the
existing content in place. For example, we can start to translate menus
part into Russian with po files.
I am waiting for comments. I also remember that I've seen a discussion
about that before, but failed to find it now, so links are welcome
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