On 12 May 2013 00:21, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > On 10/05/2013 janI wrote: > >> a high important warning (like version field) might supress >> other "real" warnings. Therefore I highly suggest we change our advice, >> and >> tell translators to fill out version with e.g. aoo40. >> > > Thanks, done at > http://openoffice.apache.org/**translate.html<http://openoffice.apache.org/translate.html> > thx.
> > But we should just preprocess the PO files appropriately: even removing > PACKAGE_VERSION altogether would work. > > I suggest to use "sed -i" when generating po files. >> > > On a Mac (if Juergen generates them on a Mac) it would be "sed -i ''". > > Actually, in general we should document the PO generation process > somewhere: if it is now stable this is a field where we could put some > relatively inexperienced volunteers at work, since it doesn't require > knowledge of the source code. > I think it is well documented in the wiki: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Localization_AOO or did you think of something different ? the above document will be updated when we change the process. Problem with most at the process (dev -> sdf -> po -> pot -> pootle -> translator -> po -> pootle -> po -> sdf -> source code) is that it happens on translate-vm?.a.o and requires sudo. In the near future (after 4.0), jsc and I will test the new procedure, and we will all discuss a more direct svn integration. rgds jan I. > > Regards, > Andrea. > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > dev-unsubscribe@openoffice.**apache.org<dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
