On Tue, 3 May 2022, Jiang Xin wrote:
Ævar and I started discussing this topic (incremental po/git.pot update and new l10n workflow) on a GitHub issue[^1] a month ago. There are several improvements to the l10n workflow:
I do agree that checking in git.pot does create a lot of noise, but ther are other ways of fixing that than deleting the file completely. I am also translating for dpkg, and there they run "xgettext --add-location=file" to remove the line numbers from the POT and PO files (requires GNU gettext 0.19; they also use "po4a --porefs=noline" for manual page translations, but we do not have translation for manual pages for Git, yet). This reduces diff noise considerably. I have been doing updates semi-off-line from my laptop for the last few months, without a proper build environment, and having the history for the POT file available for diffing has been useful.
* L10n contributors can start translations at any time, even before the l10n announcing l10n window open. We must have a new l10n workflow, see patch 9/9.
You can always re-generate the POT file locally and not commit it, to update the PO files. That has not been a problem. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
