Hi Damjan > On 07/28/2024 4:42 PM WEST Damjan Jovanovic <dam...@apache.org> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 3:39 PM Matthias Seidel <matthias.sei...@hamburg.de>
> > We need to find volunteers who want to work on it. > > And we need to have the will to release AOO 4.2.0. > > > > > If it's such a problem, I'll volunteer. > What exactly needs to be done? Thank you for stepping in! A short version of the problem (someone please correct me if there are inaccuracies) and two possible paths: 1) Translators use the Pootle platform (which has been discontinued but still works) to translate the text strings both for the UI and Help of the 4.2 branch https://translate.apache.org/projects/ 2) Translations (in PO format) are converted through some manual process in SDF files (I volunteered to learn from Mechtilde but I needed additional karma for some of the steps and we could never find who would give it to me) 3) Translations for the several languages are included in our code tree as SDF files What is needed: Minimum: as a first step that the current Pootle translations are converted to SDF and manually merged to the source tree. If this works, we can ask volunteers to finish the translations and then hopefully automate the PO to SDF to source process so that we can have a complete 4.2 release. Ideal: a new platform (user friendly and stable/supported) that works with "modern" PO files and an automated process to periodically merge those updated translations into the source (eliminating the conversion to SDF format). This obviously would require the PO strings to be mapped to the interface and included in the Help files. This solution is more work intensive but would solve the problem into the future. I would suggest that you (Damjan) would help with Minimum and leave the Ideal to some other volunteer who wants to jump in. Best, Pedro --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
