On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 17:51, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > >> Those issues might be a bit hard, but I still can't really see how >> managing these files outside of git.git would make things easier. > > The translationproject.org thing was a red herring. As you noticed, > the relevant thing is "outside of git.git". > > So imagine there is a git-translations.git project, perhaps. My > only point was that versioning of translations and versioning of > code can beneficially (in my opinion) be decoupled: with time, > the translations for even _old_ versions of git improve, too. > >> maybe we should just use >> msgmerge with --no-location. > > That would partially alleviate my concerns, and I think we might be > able to get the --add-location output back in actual checkouts with > a "smudge" filter. After looking at this all closer I found that these line messages really aren't that important to gettext's operation. So I'm in the process of removing them from the ab/i18n series. I documented the new process: http://github.com/avar/git/raw/ab/i18n/po/README >> But I'd like to coordinate things on this mailing list > [...] >> without some external service being mandatory. > > No objection here. :) > > Of course, what is convenient for translators and maintainers (i.e., > not me) takes precedence anyway; I am just throwing out ideas. > > Thanks for your thoughtfulness. Sure, thanks for consistently commenting on all of this. It's great to get feedback like this. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html